Can’t create home directory
On a fresh install of Solaris, I got this error when I was trying to manually create a user’s home directory :
# cd /home
# mkdir dirabc
mkdir: Failed to make directory “dirabc”; Operation not applicable
I can’t create the /home/dirabc directory because by default automounter keeps track of any changes in /home directory. To resolve this, just comment out any line regarding /home in these two files :
/etc/autohome
/etc/automaster
Restart automounter (or reboot the system!) and you should be able to manually control the /home directory.
