Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
How can someon create a user and a coresponding group without any password . The user isn't needed to have a shell even . Examples for such a case would be user amavis and smrsh , both needed with a sendmail installation the former in order to intergrate sendmail with amavis for virus checking and the later of course is the sendmail secure shell ?
Use "useradd" or the GUI version, add the user with a blank password and specify their shell as "/bin/false". Voila! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - When all else fails, try reading the instructions. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------