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 ?
Regards , Kostas
Am Sa, den 17.07.2004 schrieb Kostas Sfakiotakis um 1:57:
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 ?
Kostas
Use "useradd" and don't give the user a password, means don't use the parameter "-p", nor use "passwd" afterwards.
smrsh does not need a system user account.
Alexander
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 17:10, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
Am Sa, den 17.07.2004 schrieb Kostas Sfakiotakis um 1:57:
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 ?
Kostas
Use "useradd" and don't give the user a password, means don't use the parameter "-p", nor use "passwd" afterwards.
actually I found out that the -p parameter to passwd don't really do much for my needs. In the sense that the password it accepts has to be _pre-encrypted_.
I ended up using echo password | passwd --stdin
PS : I'm writing a stupid bash script to batch add users to the samba file server. Tired of doing useradd manually. (I found out late that Linux already has a 'newuser' executable file)
oh well.. Brushing up on my bash/awk skills. (next thread)
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. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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