From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 14:14:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.aracnet.com (mail3.aracnet.com [216.99.193.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19FD037B5A9 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 14:14:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@aracnet.com) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail3.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA31957; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 14:14:39 -0700 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id OAA09345; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 14:14:36 -0700 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 14:14:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: Chris Fedde Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User with no shell In-Reply-To: <200008102058.e7AKwcL03817@fedde.littleton.co.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > +------------------ > | How do I add a user with no shell and home directory? (Such as > | apache or postfix.) Again thanks much! > +------------------ > > Adduser has an option for that. When asked what shell put in "no". > When asked for a path just put in the root for the system (eg > '/usr/local/apache'). Or you could do it long hand. Just use vipw and put in > what ever you want. Thanks the path is where I was getting hung up on! :) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message