Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Aug 15, 2011, at 9:37 AM, Chris Brennan wrote: >> It's been a while since I've had to do this and the drive that contained >> all of my notes is dead, along with the backup (I was actually lucky to >> recover my home drive before it also failed but my notes were not >> there). I cannot for the life of me remember how to properly add an >> unprivledged user that will only be used for running a specific system >> service. So it doesn't need a login shell or $HOME. > > Add a user and set the shell to /bin/false or perhaps /sbin/nologin; for > $HOME set it to /var/empty or /tmp, perhaps. > > Regards,
I always used to look at user 'nobody' in vipw for this: nobody:*:65534:65534::0:0:Unprivileged user:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin -Mike _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
