No Shell User

I need to create a user with no login or home directory
abilities.  It 
just needs to own a few directories and files and be able to
run a 
daemon. would I use pw or adduser and what would be the
options for that 
command?

Thanks

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Sean Murphy wrote:
> I need to create a user with no login or home directory
abilities.
> It just needs to own a few directories and files and be
able to
> run a daemon. would I use pw or adduser and what would
be the
> options for that command?

Just set the users shell to /sbin/nologin and his
home-directory to
/nonexistent. The home-directory could be anything else i
think, just
make sure it doesn't really exist. FreeBSD's nobody user
uses
/nonexistent, though.

Frank

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