useradd to create empty home dir

[Mike McGrath]

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> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Gary Stainburn
> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 8:55 AM
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> Subject: useradd to create empty home dir
> 
> How do I get useradd to create an empty home directory?
> 
> I've tried to use -k and --skel to point to /dev/null and to 
> /etc/empty_dir which believe it or not is an empty dir I 
> created under /etc
> 
> No matter what I try, useradd fails with exit code 2.  If I 
> don't specify -k or --skel it works fine.
> 
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useradd -mk /home/usersdir username

	-Mike