creating a system user with no home dir/no passwd..

[zavandi]

Joel <rees at ddcom.co.jp> wrote:
> It's not immediately apparent that adduser and useradd are in fact two
> different commands.
> 
> useradd is essentially an alias of "user add", if I remember correctly.
> Also, they seem to use different configuration files.

# ll /usr/sbin/useradd /usr/sbin/adduser
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     7 Dec 15 13:38 /usr/sbin/adduser -> useradd
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 57648 Dec  4 03:59 /usr/sbin/useradd