Re: user group

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 08:39:52AM -0800, Mike Thompson wrote:
> I want to make some non-shell accounts and there is a group called user
> in /etc/group.  Is this group used for this purpose?

I guess you mean 'users'. No.
/usr/share/doc/base-passwd/users-and-groups.html in unstable says:

users

    While Debian systems use the user-group system by default (each user has
    their own group), some prefer to use a more traditional group system. In
    that system, each user is a member of the 'users' group.

Just put a ! in place of their crypted password in /etc/shadow (assuming
you're using shadow passwords).

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]