[CentOS] User creation problem

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 15 March 2008 14:55, Brian wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Saturday 15 March 2008 14:17, Jim Perrin wrote:
> >> On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Anne Wilson
> >>
> >> <cannewilson at googlemail.com> 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?
> >
> > That's helpful, thanks.  It is for handling imap under kontact, so I've
> > created the group groupware and left it as a member of that group.  I
> > think that will be OK, but I'll have to see when I've got the rest of it
> > set up :-)
> >
>
> As a side note to what craig said. I to use /dev/null to give my other
> stations a user account so as to add them to the samba user file.
> Without giving them an home dir.
> HTH

I set the home directory under /usr/share/, thinking that was a fairly safe 
place, but it's not working, so I don't know whether this is the cause of the 
problem or something else.  I'm trying to get advice from the kde-pim list.  
dimap is something new to me - I've used plain imap for some time, but while 
that works well for mail it doesn't allow me remote diary and addressbook.

Anne