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On 05.05.2012 7:06, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> I'm at a loss as to why it's looking in the root directory.

  Look at your /etc/passwd. Here, on my machine,home directory is empty 
for my username. Perhaps mkpasswd's bug. You can fix it by manually 
setting the right path in /etc/passwd.

-- 
  Kind regards
  Pavel Fedin
  Expert engineer, Samsung Moscow research center


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