On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:10:36AM +0000, Payal Rathod wrote: > > I have many users which are required by daemons like e.g. log, > cache, dnscache, etc. Now most of these users don't need a home > directory and a shell.
Yes, this is a requirement for many things inclusive of things like postgres and qmail (if you compile from source). > I can always but the shell as false or true (which is > recommended???) Yes, usually it is /bin/false > but what do do for home directories? I don't want clustered > directories like logs, dnscache etc in /home. Right now I am > keeping all thee kind of users home directories as > /home/.notrequired. So, I add the user as, > # adduser -s > /bin/false -h /home/.notrequired log Why are you using adduser ? adduser is a frontend to the actual program "useradd", and it varies from distro to distro. It is a shell script under Slack, perl script under some others ... Use "useradd" directly from the command line. e.g. The following creates a user junk (under group users) with /bin/nologin as the shell but no home dir. You need to do a groupadd if you want the user junk to be in an exclusive group. root:/# useradd -g users -s /bin/nologin junk root:/# grep junk < /etc/passwd junk:!:1012:100:::/bin/nologin root:/# [Note, this is on my LFS system]. You may acually do a "vipw" and create a user directly, groups may be created directly with "vigr" under root privileges. HTH Bish -- : ####[ GNU/Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]####################### Sub : Simple console calculator (#1) LOST #221 The simplest is to use 'expr'. Try this out: $expr 4 + 12 / 3 or $expr 6 "*" 2. [ Note: The quotes for multiplication ]. ####[kumarayil (at) eth.net]################################## : ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
