unprivledged users (for a service)

[Chuck Swiger]

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,
-- 
-Chuck