hi, thank you for replying... i do see an -m option which is for creating a home directory. i am not actually using Red Hat, i am using the much talked about Ubuntu 8.04. i believe Ubuntu is part of the Debian family. which distro uses the -M option out of curiosity?? is it SUSE??
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:26 PM, John H Terpstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 16 May 2008 09:46:15 am Leandro Tracchia wrote: > > i'm reading through the samba howto. section 6.2.3 (page 105) shows the > add > > machine script as follows: > > > > add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /var/lib/nobody -g 100 -s > > /bin/false -M %u > > > > i have a problem with the -M option. i cannot find this option in > useradd's > > man page. > > > > can i assume this example is incorrect?? > > > > what would be a correct example??? > > I am the author of that document. The problem is that on some Linux > distributions the "-M" option is replaced with "-m" - it means to create > the > home directory if it does not exist. In fact, if I am not mistaken, the > reference you are referring to specifically relates to this command on Red > Hat Linux. Corrct? > > FYI: In the real world I would probably NOT include the "-M" option. > > - John T. > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
