thanks tony!!! just what we needed... 'ppreciate it! on one of our systems we didn't see the '-r' command! -----Original Message----- From: Anthony J Placilla [mailto:anthony_placilla@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 10:00 AM To: bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: creating a system user with no home dir/no passwd.. 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> -- Tony Placilla, RHCT anthony_placilla@xxxxxxxx J.O.A.T. GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/C78F8B64 http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint = A8D5 7AFF CE88 4179 C792 D9A9 F197 2A15 C78F 8B64
