Re: Very basic question

[Martin Fluch <fluch@rock.helsinki.fi>]

On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote:

> I want to add a user so that they /home/username as their home directory and
> so that they can receive mail.
> 
> What is the command to set up a normal user?  Is it useradd -m username?
> This doesn't seem to set ip a mail file in /var/spool/mail and the man page
> has np reference to mail.

adduser username

the /var/spool/mail/username file is created on demand.

Martin

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