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

[bruce]

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 at suth.com]
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 10:00 AM
To: bedouglas at earthlink.net; 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 at earthlink.net
>
>


man useradd

I believe the -r option is what you want

useradd -r <somename>



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