cannot use admintool

[doti]

hi
I am using solaris 10 and have the following problem:

I cannot access the home directory when i am logged as root...
Then I created an oracle user useradd. when i checked /etc/passwd it stated that the account should be in/home/oracle directory. But when i am trying to log as oracle it says that: no such directory!
The next thing is that i cannot use admintool!!!!
It says that: admintool not found.

Thanks in advance for your help...

 

[KenCunningham]

What useradd command did you issue? In Solaris (certainly before 10, anyway), home directories are usually created under /export/home by default. Can you find admintool, and if so, is the directory it's in in your $PATH. Is your $DISPLAY set and do you have Exceed or similar running on your PC. Sorry for the questions, but more info. is required.

 

[doti]

ok
firstly i logged as a root and i entered the following command to create user:
/usr/sbin/useradd -g oinstall -G dba oracle

secondly, there is no home directory in the /etc
lastly, i cannot find admintool at all
i have never set my $DISPLAY ... so i assume that it isn't.

haw can i check whether Exceed is running?

 

[KenCunningham]

The home directory wou;dn't be under /etc, it would probably be under /export/home as I mentioned above. It seems that admintool has been discontinued in Sol 10 and you should therefore use SMC - see:

http://www.webservertalk.com/archive100-2004-6-271439.html

The Exceed client runs on the PC and allows a graphical connection to the Solaris server. I guess if you've never heard of it, you haven't got it. Your $DISPLAY should be set to the IP of your PC:

export DISPLAY=<IP addr of PC>:0.0

It seems we have some way to go.....

 

[doti]

ok, i tried that export command but the result was: 126.101.26.145: cannot open

 

[doti]

by the way, when i am trying to log as an oracle user there is a message:
"unable to access home directory. click OK to start a failsafe session.

 

[doti]

and the /export directory is empty.
previously i was wrong. my home directory exists but in the / directory so the path is: /home
soryy for the mismatch

 

[KenCunningham]

What's the entry for oinstall in /etc/passwd?

 

[doti]

there is no such entry in/etc/passwd
instead there is :
oracle:x:101:101::/home/oracle:/bin/sh

 

[doti]

the entry for oinstall is in the /etc/group and looks like this:
oinstall::101:

 

[KenCunningham]

Sorry, my bad, I meant Oracle. What's in the /home/oracle directory itself? My own thoughts would be to start over with userdel or to use usermod to change the home directory to /export/home/oracle

 

[doti]

so, in /home directory there is nothing i mean it's empty.
i have already tried userdel and i have created the user again using /usr/sbin/useradd -g oinstall -G dba oracle;
and the result is the same

i don't have any directory in /export so how can i change the directory for /export/home/oracle???

 

[KenCunningham]

You need to specify the home directory as part of the useradd command. See the -d and -m options to useradd.

 

[doti]

Thanks for milion,
it's working, i can log now as oracle
Thanks once again!!!