Create users and groups without password .

[Rick Stevens]

Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> 
> How can someon create a user and a coresponding group without any
> password . The user isn't needed to have a shell even .
> Examples for such a case would be user amavis and smrsh , both
> needed with a sendmail installation  the former in order to intergrate
> sendmail with amavis for virus checking and the later of course is the
> sendmail secure shell ?

Use "useradd" or the GUI version, add the user with a blank password
and specify their shell as "/bin/false".  Voila!
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