[Techtalk] creating a system user with no privileges

[Finne Boonen]

On Wed, 19 May 2004, Carla Schroder wrote:

> OK my little geeklings, what's the most universal way to create a system user
> with no login, no homedir, and no password? I'm used to using adduser
> --system --no-create-home --disabled-password --disabled-login <name>
>
> But I don't think adduser is standard except for Debian and Slackware, most
> distros use useradd, do they not? And I don't see obvious options in man
> useradd for doing the same thing.


correct me if I'm wrong, but adduser is a script that uses useradd, right?


basically the fist tiem I tried to create a user I used

useradd login


and never managed to login with it (as it had no passwd)

Finne


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