create a user in a second HD

[winger]

hello,

how can I create a user account in a second hard disk?

I've found some informations in how to change the /home location but none in how to setup only one aco**** in another HD.

any help?

thanks!

[nobaloney]

1) Change it.

2) Set up the new account.

3) Change it back.

Jeff

[winger]

Jeff,

and this is the best way? http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=291

thanks!

[winger]

just change at /etc/default/useradd and it is working!

thanks :D

[nobaloney]

and this is the best way? http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=291
No, this won't do it at all, this is for moving the entire /home directory to another hard disk or partition.

just change at /etc/default/useradd and it is working
Does this also change the path in the user-level httpd.conf file?

Jeff

[winger]

are you talking about the /etc/httpd/conf/extra/ httpd-userdir.conf file?

if yes, I don't think so:

<Directory /home/*/public_html>
AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes
Options -MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
<Limit GET POST OPTIONS>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Limit>
<LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</LimitExcept>
</Directory>

[nobaloney]

Then it's not all you have to do to solve the problem.

Jeff

[fesite]

I have the same question, users in two HD.

[Spamassassin]

Just creat the user normally through DA .. and then create a symbolic link to point the home directory of the user to another folder in the 2nd HDD with same permissions.

I use this why all the time and it's very easy and helpful

[Peter Laws]

There's a post on how to add extra HD's for new user's data (round-robin mannor), but I can't find it!

[localhost]

People what's wrong with you ? :)

How to do it in 5 easy steps:
1. create the user in /home/demouser
2. cp -r /home/demouser /hdd2/../..
3. Delete /home/demouser
4. ln -s /hdd2/path-to-demouser /home/demouser
5. Enable Quota on /hdd2/

[floyd]

Change user’s home directory
mkdir /home2/username # home2 being the second hard drive.
(cd /home/username;tar cf - *) | ( cd /home2/username; tar xfp -)
usermod -d /home2/username username
echo "action=rewrite&value=httpd" >> /usr/local/directadmin/data/task.queue

Reference from DirectAdmin Support http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=182533

[nobaloney]

Does this manage mail properly as well? Johns post, back in 2003, was written before mail was stored in /home.

Someone needs to check and let us know, because /home is hardcoded in exim.conf and I don't see an easy way to change that.

Jeff

[localhost]

Does this manage mail properly as well? Johns post, back in 2003, was written before mail was stored in /home.

Someone needs to check and let us know, because /home is hardcoded in exim.conf and I don't see an easy way to change that.

Jeff
Stop trolololo, I just wrote in #11 how to do it. I also had couple of years ago one server and made the same as described in #11.

[floyd]

I just wrote in #11 how to do it.

And I wrote in post #12 another way to do it. Post #12 is based on the suggested method by the DirectAdmin staff. It is also my opinion that it is the better way to do it rather than faking it. Both ways are valid.

I don't know what trolololo is.

[localhost]

And I wrote in post #12 another way to do it. Post #12 is based on the suggested method by the DirectAdmin staff. It is also my opinion that it is the better way to do it rather than faking it. Both ways are valid.

I don't know what trolololo is.
LOL :) What do you mean be faking? You should read more about inodes and filesystems. No offence but your another way will not work normaly because of:

Someone needs to check and let us know, because /home is hardcoded in exim.conf and I don't see an easy way to change that.
And as I remember EXIM is not the only /home hardcoded thing. There are more.

[floyd]

What I mean by faking it is using the symbolic link. Some things will not follow symbolic links in certain situations.

Exim is a fair point and why Jeff brought it up. However they should not be hardcode that way. In my opinion that is wrong. Any application that uses the user's home directory should query the file (CentOS is /etc/passwd) that specifies what the user's home directory actually is.

But even if I am wrong about stuff that is no reason to act like I am stupid.

[localhost]

Some things will not follow symbolic links in certain situations.

Some examples please ? :) You should read about inodes and sylinks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link).


Any application that uses the user's home directory should query the file (CentOS is /etc/passwd) that specifies what the user's home directory actually is.
Agree.

[floyd]

You should read about inodes and sylinks

Is there an echo in here?

I am sorry I cannot remember specific examples. Symlinks work for most things but I do know I have experiences where symlinks did not work. I do use symlinks but when I have a problem I know where to look first.

Large hard drives are so cheap now I do not even know why we have this thread. Just replace the hard drive and leave everybody's home directory under /home.

[floyd]

Just thought of one. tar the /home directory and instead of the users data on the second hard drive you will end up with just the symbolic link.

[localhost]

Just replace the hard drive and leave everybody's home directory under /home.
That's downtime.


Symlinks work for most things but I do know I have experiences where symlinks did not work.
How come if it's the same INODE? You are just trolololololing... If it's the same INODE the system doesn't know if this is a folder or symlink.

[floyd]

You are just trolololololing...

You keep using that word after I have told you I don't know what it means. I feel I am being insulted but I am not sure.

I or the community have nothing to gain by continuing with this. :p

[localhost]

You keep using that word after I have told you I don't know what it means.

This is trololo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oavMtUWDBTM&feature=related

[nobaloney]

@floyd:

According to man tar on both Redhat/CentOS and Debian/Ubunut distributions (I just checked) you can use the -h or --dereference options to treat symlinks by following them and archiving/restoring them as if they were real.

The program I remember as not following symlinks is apache, but it depends on an option in the configuration. You can not follow symlinks, follow them, or only follow them if the owner matches. Lots of Google hits here (http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=apache+follow+symlinks).

Everyone:

Exim delivers email based on where it is. /home just happens to be where it is when using Dovecot on DirectAdmin. That part of the code that's hard-coded was written by DirectAdmin staff. I've just found a reference in my current RC (and maybe in all exim.conf files in use by DirectAdmin; I haven't checked), to $home, in the userforward director.

So it may very well work. However recently I believe someone has posted on these forums that the forwards in the .forward file weren't working. Are they? If they are, then $home can possibly be substituted for /home in the local_delivery director.

However I'm not sure what exactly $home contains at the point where it needs to be checked.

Documentation is here (http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.20/doc/html/spec_24.html#SEC652) (exim.org). Anyone have time to check it?

Jeff

[polo]

I have some users that was moved to a second hard drive mounted as home2

mail works and everythign is great except ftp. I cannot add or modify ftp users it says :

Cannot Execute Your Request



Details

That is not a valid path. Either it is not in your home directory, it doesn't exist, it contains symbolic links, or it contains invalid characters



Any Ideas????????? :)

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

That error message is generated when DA checks the ftp path for custom accounts. It's looking for a few things (which can generate that message).

1) Check /etc/passwd for the system account. Make sure the home path is /home2/username, if the user is under /home2.

2) There also cannot be any symbolic links in the path. No directories can be present in any part of the path.

3) the path must exist, and be chowned to the User. (root won't be allowed)

4) it must be a valid path (obviously).. must start with the / character, and end with the name of the directory it's pointed to.

5) The path must be below the home directory of the User, so similar to check #1, the path would need to be something like /home2/user/path, or /home2/user/some/other/path, etc...


On a side note (not related to the ftp issue), regarding quotas and 2nd drives:
http://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=611

John

[Seth]

So what is the best way to do this? I have /home2 and /home3 I would like to use.

[nobaloney]

If I recall correctly, you just change DirectAdmin to use /home2, and it will create new users in /home2 but users created earlier won't be affected. And when /home2 is full, do the same, moving to /home3.

Jeff