Re: [CentOS] User creation problem

On Saturday 15 March 2008 16:20, Craig White wrote:

/usr/share is a really bad idea...

• selinux
• goes against intended purpose http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#PURPOSE26
• just a plain bad idea.

home directories should be in /home with the sole exception of daemon users (uid < 500) which will typically be created in /var or /var/lib

Fair enough. I'll delete that user and start again. About UIDs, though. The user 'groupware' is not a user in the normal sense of the word. It is a part of dimap functionality, in my case handled by dovecot. There will never be a login, unless I have to do it as part of the setup, then switch off logins. Is it best to allocate a UID above or below 500?

This may be obvious to you, but its a new ballgame to me :-)

Anne