From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 25 8:42:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.ocsny.com (apollo.ocsny.com [204.107.76.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF35337B698 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:42:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from ocsinternet.com (ra.upan.org [204.107.76.19]) by apollo.ocsny.com (8.9.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA28634; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:42:34 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A70113E.BF54E960@ocsinternet.com> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:42:55 +0000 From: Mikel King Organization: OCS Internet X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wmoran@mail.the-i-pa.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Users without logins References: <20010124220714.21707.qmail@mail.the-i-pa.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG pw useradd USERNAME -s /sbin/nologin man pw for more info Cheers, Mikel wmoran@mail.the-i-pa.com wrote: > What is the generally accepted "correct" way to create user accounts that can not be used to login? > I can think of more than one way to do this, but I was wondering if there was a method that was considered "standard" or typical. If not, what is the most used method? > > -Bill > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message