On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 17:10, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Sa, den 17.07.2004 schrieb Kostas Sfakiotakis um 1:57: > > > 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 ? > > > Kostas > > Use "useradd" and don't give the user a password, means don't use the > parameter "-p", nor use "passwd" afterwards. actually I found out that the -p parameter to passwd don't really do much for my needs. In the sense that the password it accepts has to be _pre-encrypted_. I ended up using echo password | passwd --stdin PS : I'm writing a stupid bash script to batch add users to the samba file server. Tired of doing useradd manually. (I found out late that Linux already has a 'newuser' executable file) oh well.. Brushing up on my bash/awk skills. (next thread) -- Ow Mun Heng Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive Neuromancer 17:10:58 up 5:54, 10 users, load average: 1.84, 1.40, 0.94
