Creating users...

sancho5 · 08-23-2001, 06:09 PM

Hey there,
Is there an option that allows you to add a user account but not setup a login/home folder for them on the system?
#useradd <name>

will add the user to the system, as well as create a home/login directory for them. I want to allow the account to authenticate to the system, but not create login files/directory for them.

d3funct · 08-23-2001, 06:15 PM

If you do a "man useradd" you'll see that the "-M" option will override default settings.

From the useradd manpage:
-M The user home directory will not be created, even if the system wide settings from /etc/login.defs is to create home dirs.

sancho5 · 08-23-2001, 06:20 PM

Awesome. I'm not in front of a Linux box right now, or I would have checked myself - so thank you for your help.