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Christian Barth
barth at cck.uni-kl.de
Fri Feb 15 00:14:08 GMT 2002
> 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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