useradd to create empty home dir

[Gary Stainburn]

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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Gary Stainburn
 
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