On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 09:18:20AM -0400, Erik Bourget wrote: > > > What's the best/accepted way to have a package add users to a Debian system? > I have a daemon that has no need to run as root (but a need to store its own > datafiles, etc, so nobody is out) and would like to have it run under a user > account. Gerrit Pape's qmail package does an ugly > hit-control-c-if-you-don't-want-these-users thing that I don't like. >
Use useradd. Generally you could also use debconf to ask confirmation/usernames for that, but it's not mandatory. -- Francesco P. Lovergine
