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I want to create user with least privileges. Without home, without rights, without shell. How to do that? When I call useradd it creates user with home

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Did you even look at the manual for useradd? – Cylindric Dec 16 '11 at 16:33

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Per the man page, this command will create a user with no home directory, and no shell.

 useradd -M -s /bin/false <desired username>
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