I am creating a loginless dummy user to own a persistent service. His voice resounding from the deep past, a man from Sun Microsystems asks me, of this ghost, this fiction I wish to create, what their room number, work phone, and home phone are.
@mcc once I followed the echoes behind that voice, and it pulled me back, back, racing through the office plan at Sun, back, through the corridors at Bell Labs, and I finally ended up in an office at General Electric, some 60 years ago.
@mgedmin That looks like what I want but I notice that the definition of --system in the manpage is "adds a system user or group" and it doesn't explain what that means
@mcc A client had a service account who's place of birth was listed as "Pennsylvania". Place of birth was not required. Nothing else was filled out. I assume someone just looked at the brand new service account and said "You know what? it's giving born in Pennsylvania" and then just chose not to elaborate.
@machineyearning You know, if you picked a random spot in Pennsylvania, it would probably not be part of any incorporated town or city. So we can assume most Pennsylvanians were born in "just Pennsylvania". That's what the math tells us
@mcc I'm doing this all the time on ubuntu systems, but apparently tumbleweed, which I switched to recently on this specific machine, doesn't even have adduser installed by default, which I guess sort of solves the problem?
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