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