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 :-) > > Anne > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > 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