I'm trying to set up a git user, but am getting the error
useradd: cannot create directory /srv/data/git
when running this command
sudo useradd \
--create-home \
--skel /dev/null \
--home-dir /srv/data/git \
--shell /usr/bin/git-shell \
--comment 'Web Archive VCS' \
git
Why am I having trouble? When creating the directory first, (mkdir -p /srv/data/git
) I receive the following two errors/warnings.
useradd: warning: the home directory already exists.
Not copying any file from skel directory into it.
This should be very straight forward, but is having issues for unknown reasons to me