Re: creating users meant for services

[Cameron Simpson <cs zip com au>]

On 17:14 31 Dec 2003, Jason Dixon <jason dixongroup net> wrote:
| On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 16:45, Chris W. Parker wrote:
| > i am just installing and configuraing mysql and i started to think about
| > users that are solely meant to run services. i imagine that for those
| > users you wouldn't use 'useradd servicename' because then you'd just
| > fill up your /home directory with a bunch of wasted space.
| > 
| > what is the process for adding these types of users?
| 
| Right there in the useradd manpage:
| 
|        -M     The user home directory will not be created, even if the  system
|               wide settings from /etc/login.defs is to create home dirs.

Of course, you may want to make the homedir later.
Handy, for example, for putting in a .procmailrc to process email to
that user, etc.
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