[X-Unix] Creating users with the command line

[Eugene]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 05:32:44AM +1000, Pedro fp wrote:
: 
: Early on ATDG advises creating a user called 'webuser' in a group  
: 'webgroup'. The authors advise first creating webgroup using the  
: command ...
: 	adduser -group webgroup
: then using addgroup to add webuser however when I attempt to run those  
: commands I get ...
: 	-bash: adduser: command not found
: Can anyone advise how I can do this on OS X.3? The objective is to  
: create a user who "cannot actually log in" for Apache services to run  
: as.

The purpose of creating a seperate user/group is to take advantage of
the Unix user privilege system to isolate Apache from undesired access
to other non-web files.  Apple has already done so with its installation
of Apache.  Just use user "www" and group "www".


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Eugene Lee
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