creating a system user with no home dir/no passwd..
Johannes Findeisen
mailman at hanez.org
Mon May 2 18:22:08 UTC 2005
On Monday 02 May 2005 19:55, bruce wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Johannes Findeisen
> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 10:01 AM
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> Subject: Re: creating a system user with no home dir/no passwd..
>
> On Monday 02 May 2005 18:46, bruce wrote:
> > hi...
> >
> > i'm trying to figure out how to create a system user for an app. i don't
> > want the user to have a passwd/or a home dir.
> >
> > from google, it appears that this should be doable.. any thoughts...
> >
> > adduser ???
>
> man useradd
>
> ;-)
>
> i'm sure that was an attempt at humour.. i assume you thought that we
> hadn't already looked there...
Yes, it was a little bit humour but anyway how could you have looked there if
you named the command "adduser"? So this really was _not_ a joke!
> but if you have no idea as to how to accomplish what i asked.. it's ok
> too...
I had no idea but i have looked in the manpage and have found the solution
there.
<part src="man useradd">
-r This flag is used to create a system account. That is, a user
with a UID lower than the value of UID_MIN defined in
/etc/login.defs and whose password does not expire. Note that
useradd will not create a home directory for such an user,
regardless of the default setting in /etc/login.defs. You have
to specify -m option if you want a home directory for a system
account to be created. This is an option added by Red Hat.
</part>
Okay other people have told you that too but thats what i have found in the
manpage.
> ps. the man page doesn't shed light as to how to do it...
It really does! And please reply to the list and not only to me!
Regards
--
Johannes Findeisen
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