usermod woes

[cackles]

I added a user with no home dir thinking when they logged on they wouldnt be able to see or do anything, I was wrong.

So I used

usermod -d /new/dir/here username

Now when logging in using that username I get

/usr/bin/xauth:  timeout in locking authority file /new/dir/here/.Xauthority

How can I correct this?

Also how do I restrict that user to that folder only?

Easiest way, I think, is to delete the user and start again but Id like to know how to fix it.

I checked in the /etc/passwd and it shows the home dir for the user to be what I set it at.

[CaptainMark]

Perhaps its permissions of the .Xauthority file in the new home folder, my is 600, check yours is the same, what exactly are you trying to achieve?

[cackles]

Basically just a user with a new home directory and them to be restricted to that dir.

[CaptainMark]

a standard user will only have write access to their own home folder, they must has read access to other files or you could not run the system at all with that user.

if you mean to make it so new users cannot read your home directory just create a normal user in the standard way, and use

chmod o-r ~

to block read access to all other users, you don't need to place their home folder anywhere special