Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:26:44 +0100 From: Frank Steinborn <frank@ircnow.org> To: Sean Murphy <smurphy@calarts.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No Shell User Message-ID: <20060131222644.GA86369@scott.blazing.de> In-Reply-To: <43DFB664.9010403@calarts.edu> References: <43DFB664.9010403@calarts.edu>
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Sean Murphy wrote: > I need to create a user with no login or home directory abilities. > It just needs to own a few directories and files and be able to > run a daemon. would I use pw or adduser and what would be the > options for that command? Just set the users shell to /sbin/nologin and his home-directory to /nonexistent. The home-directory could be anything else i think, just make sure it doesn't really exist. FreeBSD's nobody user uses /nonexistent, though. Frank
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