New Home Directories for new users

These are normally stored in /export/home/username but mounted to /home by a service called autofs.

Once you've created a user and their home folder (and given the user ownership of this folder) you will need to update the automount script. This is it before the addition.

adrian@openindiana-tuts:~$ cat /etc/auto_home
#
# Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
# Use is subject to license terms.
#
# CDDL HEADER START
#
# The contents of this file are subject to the terms of the
# Common Development and Distribution License, Version 1.0 only
# (the "License").  You may not use this file except in compliance
# with the License.
#
# You can obtain a copy of the license at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE
# or http://www.opensolaris.org/os/licensing.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions
# and limitations under the License.
#
# When distributing Covered Code, include this CDDL HEADER in each
# file and include the License file at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE.
# If applicable, add the following below this CDDL HEADER, with the
# fields enclosed by brackets "[]" replaced with your own identifying
# information: Portions Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner]
#
# CDDL HEADER END
#
# ident "%Z%%M% %I%     %E% SMI"
#
# Home directory map for automounter
#
adrian  localhost:/export/home/&
+auto_home

To do this(open your favorite editor):

adrian@openindiana-tuts:~$ sudo nano /etc/auto_home # append paul localhost:/export/home/& before +auto_home

where paul is the user and home directory name.

It should now look like:

#
# Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
# Use is subject to license terms.
#
# CDDL HEADER START
#
# The contents of this file are subject to the terms of the
# Common Development and Distribution License, Version 1.0 only
# (the "License").  You may not use this file except in compliance
# with the License.
#
# You can obtain a copy of the license at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE
# or http://www.opensolaris.org/os/licensing.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions
# and limitations under the License.
#
# When distributing Covered Code, include this CDDL HEADER in each
# file and include the License file at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE.
# If applicable, add the following below this CDDL HEADER, with the
# fields enclosed by brackets "[]" replaced with your own identifying
# information: Portions Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner]
#
# CDDL HEADER END
#
# ident "%Z%%M% %I%     %E% SMI"
#
# Home directory map for automounter
#
adrian  localhost:/export/home/&
paul    localhost:/export/home/&
+auto_home

Then start and stop the service:

adrian@openindiana-tuts:~$ sudo svcadm disable autofs
adrian@openindiana-tuts:~$ sudo svcadm enable autofs

Now when you login as that user their home directory will be automounted into the /home folder.

credit for these docs go to /u/127b