Am Montag, den 12.09.2005, 06:45 -0500 schrieb Ed Wilts: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:50:52AM +0200, Alexander Ruhri wrote: > > I have a slight problem with useradd in RHEL3. When adding a new user, a > > file is created in /var/mail/<username>. > > This "feature" is not documented in the manpage, nor can I find a way to > > suppress this behavior. > > The problem is, that the users mailbox is /var/mail/<username>/inbox > > > > The other issue is, that I would like to make some other custom > > changes, when adding users (adding to maillist, creating maildir, adding > > to smbpasswd...). In debian there is a local script, which is executed > > after adduser. > > What I've been doing for many years is to write my own adduser script > that our Help Desk runs. It does stuff like generate an appropriate > password, adding to smbpasswd, setting up group membership, etc. It's > not hard to have it call useradd. You could delete the empty mailfile > if you want. > Yes, I was thinking about that... but then maybe one must not use the graphical interface (redhat-config-users). I can do without it, but what about the admin after me in half a year, who may be likes to click the world... It would be far nicer to have a post-executed script like debian has... :-) Thanks for the advice! -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
