Re: creating a system user with no home dir/no passwd..

From: zavandi (zavandi_at_gmail.com)
Date: 05/06/05

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    Joel <rees@ddcom.co.jp> wrote:
    > It's not immediately apparent that adduser and useradd are in fact two
    > different commands.
    >
    > useradd is essentially an alias of "user add", if I remember correctly.
    > Also, they seem to use different configuration files.

    # ll /usr/sbin/useradd /usr/sbin/adduser
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Dec 15 13:38 /usr/sbin/adduser -> useradd
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 57648 Dec 4 03:59 /usr/sbin/useradd 

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