I have a script that works fine on Centos because useradd doesnt require a password to be set there and then, but the same script doesnt work on ubuntu servers as it requires this info.
I ideally want to force no password set on my script for the ubuntu servers or add a line where it sets the password during the useradd command.
If I just add sudo passwd user to my script this will only take effect after the useradd command which is too late.
Any ideas?
When I create a user with useradd command in centos 5, the home directory is created and its /etc/skel files are copied to that directory but when i give useradd with -doption to some different path to home directory it does not create the skeloton files, like .bachrc, .bash_history etc.
If someone can give a hint so I can resolve this problem. Actually I need to execute some specific command .bashrc file but its not there. I created it manually but stil it does not executed that at time of user login.
Regards
From the adduser command, I saw the option --system to create a system user.
A system user will use /bin/false and by default belong to nogroup. It also won't copy the /etc/skel to the home directory.
In which condition would I prefer to create a system user?
After removing the user, does the crontab added by that user gets removed as well? I am asking this because I can see a user file called "abcuser" in the
/var/spool/cron/
When I cat the file, I can see the crons added by that user. The user no longer exist and the cron's won't work. But why does the crontab file is still there?
I'd like to be able to su to another user to run a script with reduced permissions. Unfortunately I have to type the password in every time, is there a way to create a user without needing the password prompt?