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

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• From: Anthony J Placilla <anthony_placilla@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 12:59:43 -0400
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On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 09:46 -0700, 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 ???
> 
> thanks
> 
> bruce
> bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 


man useradd

I believe the -r option is what you want

useradd -r <somename>



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