[CentOS] Adduser help

[Robert Moskowitz]

Joshua Gimer wrote:
> I believe that if you do not provide the -m switch it will not create 
> a user home dir. They will be placed in a group that is the same as 
> their username. If you are creating a service account then you should 
> probably give the user a null shell using -s /sbin/nologin. And if you 
> do not specify a password the account is disabled. This give's you:
>  
> useradd -s /sbin/nologin openpbx
Ah,   I had already created the group per instructions, so

useradd -g openpbx -s /sbin/nologin openpbx

worked.  I hope it worked right!
>  
> That should do it!
>  
> On 3/9/07, *Robert Moskowitz* <rgm at htt-consult.com 
> <mailto:rgm at htt-consult.com>> wrote:
>
>     at
>     http://wiki.openpbx.org/tiki-index.php?page=Easy+route+to+building+OpenPBX.org
>     <http://wiki.openpbx.org/tiki-index.php?page=Easy+route+to+building+OpenPBX.org>
>
>     there is the following adduser command:
>
>     adduser --no-create-home --ingroup openpbx --disabled-password
>     --disabled-login openpbx
>
>     This does NOT seem to be the right format for Centos.  So far, using
>     man, I have come up with;
>
>
>     adduser -M -g openpbx
>
>     What else do I need?
>
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> Joshua Gimer
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