From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 18 15:52:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BBA637B401 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:52:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web20107.mail.yahoo.com (web20107.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 22FB143E6A for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:52:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdneophyte@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20020918225245.13281.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.65.83.156] by web20107.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:52:45 PDT Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:52:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Bsd Neophyte Subject: Re: what is the freebsd version for "useradd -M"? To: jimd@nepinc.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200209181528.19794.jimd@nepinc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- Jim Durham wrote: > 'pw' has different arguments based on the first argument. If you say > 'pw useradd' then "-M" is not valid. You'll see this if you carefully > read the man page. i have, this is why i noted that there was no "-M" option for the "useradd" argument under "pw" apparently, the "-M" under vanilla "useradd" indicates that a home directory is not to be created. i was not, and still am not sure if there was a specific argument that allows for this. from the looks if it i guess there isn't. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes http://autos.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message