Re: Adding a user's home directory

From: Bas Keur (viper_at_dmrt.net)
Date: 11/25/03 

Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:12:55 +0100

: 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'

Try `useradd` instead of `adduser`

usage: useradd [-mov] [-G group[,group,...]] [-b basedir] [-c comment]
                [-d homedir] [-e expiry] [-f changetime] [-g group]
                [-k skeletondir] [-p password] [-r lowuid..highuid]
                [-s shell] [-u uid] [-L class] user 

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