on 10/10/01 5:35 PM, Lorry at fish at slava.net wrote: > Well anyway, now I am trying to do postfix, and I am supposed to create > a user called postfix. At first, I thought "oh yeah, like I know how to > do that," but I did RTFM, but I have a question about it. It says this > user "postfix" doesn't need a home dir. Does that mean if I don't add > '-d blahblah' on the useradd then it won't create a home dir? It sounds > like it will create a home dir anyway, with the default name... but it > isn't exactly crystal clear. If it makes a home dir anyway, is there a > way to tell it not to? Don't know, but you can do it the long way around and... 1 - Create the user. 2 - Delete the home dir ( rm -rf /home/postfix ). 3 - Remove the home dir from /etc/passwd ( Carefully AFTER you backup the file ). > Lorry, who is thinking of designing 'woman pages' cuz man pages suck! ;) Ya... some of them need a lot of work. They assume quite a bit about the user... Maybe just some dumba** pages would be better. I'd use them all the time. :) sim