Hello! When I try creating a new user profile using the ‘useradd’ command, it shows the new user in etc/passwd and also in /home/$user but said /$user directory is completely empty and trying to log in to that useraccount just shows a blackscreen for a couple seconds before throwing the user back t…

Hello @FloAtWork and welcome! When you say “…and the /etc/skel directory appears to be empty.” : Did you list that directory with the -a flag? The reason is that an /etc/skel directory can have hidden files and directories. For instance, on my Rocky Linux 9.1 desktop, the /etc/skel looks like this: …

[image] FloAtWork: When I try creating a new user profile using the ‘useradd’ command, it shows the new user in etc/passwd and also in /home/$user but said /$user directory is completely empty Can you provide the exact useradd command? /home/$user and /$user from your text above is a differe…

First of all thanks for the replies! I looked a bit more into it and it seems I didn’t use the correct flags before. In my etc/skel/ there are the 4 files ‘.bashrc’, ‘.bash_logout’, ‘.bash_profile’ and ‘.mozilla’ Logout and profile seem to be identical to what spencer wrote, bashrc looks a bit dif…

[image] FloAtWork: nd trying ‘rmdir /$user’ doesn’t work unfortunately because it’s not empty. You can use rm -rf $user to delete if it’s not empty.

If you want to delete a user, including his/her home directory, use userdel -r $user. Otherwise, the home directory of $user will still remain.

Useradd creates home directory but no files or directories inside /home/$user

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How did you create the user password?

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Useradd creates home directory but no files or directories inside /home/$user

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