How to create new users in home partition?
I reinstalled Debian 10 on my computer where my home users directory is in a separate partition. Then I mounted automatically adding the last line:
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
UUID=A8F4-8A13 /boot/efi vfat defaults,noatime 0 2
UUID=86dcf31c-9657-43e1-84e2-d8a4ca6d69d3 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
UUID=eff68550-9a1e-4281-bfc1-a45f757959cc swap swap defaults,noatime 0 2
/dev/disk/by-uuid/ed2f56a2-d53c-45d5-ba21-d5f7ed68e5d1 /home auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
Now I need to link my user account (john) with the /home/john directory. And the new users must be created in home partition too.
Easiest way, edit /etc/passwd and modify the uid and home directory as required.
Any new users home dirs are created with useradd and the -m switch.