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[Christian Barth]

> Hi all
> 
> The trouble I am still having is creating the machine account.  I get an 
> error saying that the dir /dev/null cannot be created because a file by the 
> name of null exists in  /dev.  Does the machine account need to be in 
> /dev/null or can I change it to something else. 
It should be for security reasons. But you can use an other directory 
and hand edit /etc/passwd later.

> I am running redhat 7.2. 
> and using this script to try and create accounts
> 
> /usr/sbin/useradd -g machines -d /dev/null -s /bin/false CLIENT$
Look at the manpage of useradd. There should be an option not to 
create the home directory, may be -M.

Christian

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> Thanks
> 
> Shaun
> 
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