Adding a user's home directory

From: Pritchie (nntp2003_at_pritchie.com.nospam)
Date: 11/25/03

  • Next message: Bas Keur: "Re: Adding a user's home directory" 
    Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:52:20 -0000

    Hi,

    I am trying to add a daemon user with the home directory of '/var/qmail',
    however the 'adduser' utility expects a partition (eg. -home ${partition}).
    Therefore if I try to create the user account ${user} using 'adduser' and
    '-h /var/qmail'

    it creates "/var/qmail/${user}",

    at the moment the best solutions I have is using

    # adduser -batch qmaild nofiles qmaild ${user_password} -shell
    nologin -unencrypted

    and then editing the passwd database with 'vipw' later...
    but this is OpenBSD, I am sure there's a better way in doing it in a
    batch.... ;o)

    Just so it's clear, I am trying to create script which creates all these
    accounts while installing qmail unattended (and learn more OpenBSD).

    Thanks
    SJP

    Thanks for any help in advance.

  • Next message: Bas Keur: "Re: Adding a user's home directory"

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