On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 10:17 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Anne Wilson
> <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > system-config-users is giving me a problem. I need to create a user
> > called 'groupware', without a home directory, and belonging only to a
> > non-privileged group. I can create the user, but it sets it to belong to the
> > group 'users'. When I try to set its default to 'nobody' and delete
> > the 'users' entry it tells me that I must enter a home directory.
> >
> > How can I get around this?
>
> Mostly, you don't. Every user has to have a home directory, though
> nothing says it has to be in /home
>
> Take a look at how the system accounts for things like rpm or rpc or
> others are handled. I'd also recommend using useradd as it gives you a
> bit more flexibility when creating users. with useradd you can use -g
> and -G to see the primary and secondary group memberships as you need.
> Also, unless this account will be logging in or for some other reason
> requires a shell, make sure that the shell for the user is set to
> /sbin/nologin.
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Machine accounts in samba use /dev/null as home directory so I wouldn't
think that too difficult either.
Craig
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