Sendmail nologin user

Nikosis · 03-30-2007, 04:03 PM

Hi
I tried to create sendmail account without possibility to login to the system,
I found it, so it doesn't matter anymore, unless you know better way to do it.

Quote:

useradd -c "User_Full_Name" -s /sbin/nologin username
passwd userpass

Thx

fotoguy · 03-31-2007, 11:37 PM

I would also add their home directory as /dev/null so you do not need to enter a password for the user, they will automatically be directed to the device /dev/null and not to the filesystem, which means they cannot login:

Code:

useradd useradd -c "User_Full_Name" -s /sbin/nologin -d /dev/null username

Nikosis · 04-02-2007, 04:10 AM

Thanks, I'll give it a try.