[SOLVED] su zimbra problem.

[networxpc]

I have a small prob.
Installed ZCS 6.0.3 on Fedora Core 11
everything ok, exept this:

[root@server named]# su zimbra
trying to create local folder /opt/zimbra/.kde: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /opt/zimbra/.kde: Permission denied

Any ideas? I can su zimbra, and it works fine, just gives this complaint message
I'm sure its permissions, but don't know if they have to be root or zimbra.

Help please

[mickier]

Couple of things - afaik zimbra user does not need a "home directory" which it looks like the system is trying to create. On my system, I created a home directory for the zimbra user so I could have a place to run some provisioning scripts to modify users.
Looking at your error, somehow it's trying to create the home dir on /opt/zimbra which is probably not good imho.
You could try something like usermod -d /home/zimbra zimbra but first, run "less /etc/passwd" and note where the home directory is currently set for user zimbra in case changing it makes the system angry... (it's the 2nd last field on the zimbra line - and it may be blank)
Peace

[networxpc]

that didn't work.
didn't like it ..

did usermod -d /home/zimbra zimbra
then su zimbra
got bash-4.0$
but changed back and no worse off than I was .

[networxpc]

I fixed by adding directory list /opt/zimbra/.kde/share
now you su zimbra
and it just changes users with no complaints.

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by networxpc

now you su zimbra

You should never use that command to become the Zimbra user it should always be:

su - zimbra

You should always use the hyphen ('-') so the correct environment gets created otherwise you may encounter problems.

[networxpc]

Thanks for all the help guys. I am fairly new to this and I can't believe how fast I got responses. You'll be hearing from me again, I'm sure.

[carnold]

We too are having this problem. 1st noticed on upgrade and then we we run su - zimbra get this:
su - zimbra
mkdir: cannot create directory `/opt/zimbra/.kde': Permission denied
touch: cannot touch `/opt/zimbra/.kde/share/config/ksmserverrc': No such file or directory
grep: /opt/zimbra/.kde/share/config/ksmserverrc: No such file or directory
-bash: /opt/zimbra/.kde/share/config/ksmserverrc: No such file or directory
-bash: /opt/zimbra/.kde/share/config/ksmserverrc: No such file or directory

I infact checked for the .kde folder in /opt/zimbra and it does not exist (i have show hidden files enabled).

We use SLES10 and gnome as desktop. How do we fix this?

[networxpc]

I think I just created all the required directories, changed permissions, and that took care of it.