Adduser and /etc/passwd

[Lev Lafayette]

I'm adding a user to set up an autoresponder account (the one big gap in
the otherwise excellent instructions at: 

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PostfixCompleteVirtualMailSystemHowto

Anyway, I run the standard command to establish a user with no home or
password...

adduser --no-create-home --disabled-password --ingroup vacation vacation

but in /etc/passwd there's a...

vacation:x:1001:5001:,,,:/home/vacation:/bin/bash

Now contrary to what /etc/password suggests there is no /home/vacation
directory and there is certainly no way that the vacation user will ever
login to use bash but still....


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