[Techtalk] creating a system user with no privileges

[Devdas Bhagat]

On 20/05/04 09:12 +0000, Conor Daly wrote:
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> Isn't that what user 'nobody' is for?
nobody is for NFS mounts.

> grep nobody /etc/passwd /etc/shadow
> /etc/passwd:nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:
> /etc/shadow:nobody:*:11414:0:99999:7:::
> 
> No home dir (well, '/' but no permissions on it), no shell, no login.  Now,
A no shell entry defaults to /bin/sh (at least, it used to)
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> useradd -d / -s /bin/false -u <xx> <name> 

Devdas Bhagat