Create users and groups without password .

Sat Jul 17 00:10:08 UTC 2004

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

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