Comments on: How to Add or Remove User Accounts in RHEL/CentOS 5

By: consultant

consultant — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:43:23 +0000

Hi modular,

I’ve updated this article, thanks for the tip.

By: modular

modular — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:47:31 +0000

Ok I find How to do that (for centos 5.2 or 5.3 tested)

to configure password for user :

# passwd [username]

to remove user :

# userdel [username]
remove the file [username] in /var/spool/mail/
remove the directory [username] in /home/

For “how test receiving and sending mail”
I see in other section of this website how to do !! Thank you very much !!

By: modular

modular — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:50:29 +0000

Hi consultant,

Can you update your the article with that question please with command line :
- how to configure a password for user
- how to remove a user (with all appropriate file and directory)
- how to test for a user to receive and send mail
Thank you in advance !!!!

By: modular

modular — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:32:48 +0000

Hi consultant,

Thank you for this update.

By: consultant

consultant — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:18:15 +0000

Hi modular,

I’ve updated the article to show its command line equivalent.

By: modular

modular — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:17:08 +0000

I’m looking for the command line to create user account (mail) on postfix running on centos 5.3.

thank you in advance.

By: Inheritor

Inheritor — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:24:26 +0000

I’ve stumbled on to the fact that Postfix does changes the user name in the mail address to lower case which would not match a UNIX user name which may be in capitals.

By: Inheritor

Inheritor — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:35:19 +0000

Thanks, That helped and the Maildir folders are now there. But now I added a few more users but mail to these users are bounced with (unknown user: “csr1″) althought these users are in the aliases file & I’ve issued the newaliases cmd. & postfix reload. What is strange is that mail to one user is delivered with no problem. file permissions are similar for the working user & the not-working ones. I appreciate your help.

By: consultant

consultant — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:53:39 +0000

Hi Inheritor,

Don’t worry, the Maildir folders will be automatically created by Postfix whenever a mail for that user has been received or by Dovecot when the user logs in to Dovecot.

By: Inheritor

Inheritor — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:17:42 +0000

I added new users but there is no Maildir created. Users existing when Postfix/Dovecot were installed have /home/username/Maildir folders which work. Iv’e restarted Postfix & Dovecot but no luck. Any help greatly appreciated.