On Monday 02 May 2005 19:55, bruce wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Johannes Findeisen > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 10:01 AM > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: creating a system user with no home dir/no passwd.. > > On Monday 02 May 2005 18:46, 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 ??? > > man useradd > > ;-) > > i'm sure that was an attempt at humour.. i assume you thought that we > hadn't already looked there... Yes, it was a little bit humour but anyway how could you have looked there if you named the command "adduser"? So this really was _not_ a joke! > but if you have no idea as to how to accomplish what i asked.. it's ok > too... I had no idea but i have looked in the manpage and have found the solution there. <part src="man useradd"> -r This flag is used to create a system account. That is, a user with a UID lower than the value of UID_MIN defined in /etc/login.defs and whose password does not expire. Note that useradd will not create a home directory for such an user, regardless of the default setting in /etc/login.defs. You have to specify -m option if you want a home directory for a system account to be created. This is an option added by Red Hat. </part> Okay other people have told you that too but thats what i have found in the manpage. > ps. the man page doesn't shed light as to how to do it... It really does! And please reply to the list and not only to me! Regards -- Johannes Findeisen
