[CentOS] User creation problem

Sat Mar 15 14:55:28 UTC 2008
Brian <Lists at Tatorz.com>

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
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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