"Home is supposed to be empty, or a copy of /etc/skel/. How should the operating system know what you want to put there?"

Aldebaran is telling you that /home/fred does not exist.

marto@Marto-Desktop:~$ sudo useradd fred
[sudo] password for marto: 
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for marto: 
marto@Marto-Desktop:~$ sudo passwd fred
New password: 
Retype new password: 
passwd: password updated successfully
marto@Marto-Desktop:~$ ls -al /home
total 12
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  root  4096 May 12 15:05 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root  root  4096 May 12 15:04 ..
drwxr-xr-x 56 marto marto 4096 Sep 23 10:32 marto
marto@Marto-Desktop:~$ su - fred
Password: 
su: warning: cannot change directory to /home/fred: No such file or di
+rectory
$ ^C

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As previously stated useradd was not being called with the correct arguments to create /home/fred, which would have been useradd -m fred thus creating the directory and copying the files from /etc/skel.

In reply to Re^10: [OT] A New Everything ? by marto
in thread [OT] A New Everything ? by Aldebaran

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