OpenIndiana Distribution

When I into OpenIndiana as the user that I created during installation, I am prompted with "No directory! Logging in with home=/". I am unable to use the ping, or zoneadm commands unless I cd into the /usr/sbin directory. This is not an issue when running as root or a newly created user. To paraphrase some help received in IRC, maybe the account that I installed the system defaults to /home/user instead where it should be , in /export/home/user and have wrong path for commands in bash