On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 15:13 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > 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. ---- /usr/share is a really bad idea... - selinux - goes against intended purpose http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#PURPOSE26 - just a plain bad idea. home directories should be in /home with the sole exception of daemon users (uid < 500) which will typically be created in /var or /var/lib Craig