[ic] Movin on to question #962642: interch user... :)

Kitepilot Solutions LLC interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Tue May 13 15:23:00 2003


> # Create interch user/group if they don't already exist
>
> /usr/sbin/groupadd -g 52 interch 2>/dev/null
>
> /usr/sbin/useradd -u 52 -g interch -c "Interchange server" -s /bin/bash -r
> -d /var/lib/interchange interch 2>/dev/null
>
Mark, thanks for this, I appreciate your help.

Why 52?
Can I just do /usr/sbin/groupadd -r interch ? (Red Hat 7.2)

How is this going to allow me to write to directories and files that were
created by root?
Thanks!
Enrique