Create non privilege user – noname

It is necessary sometime to have the user which will be nobody in the system but still be able to run specific process or software on your Linux system.

Usually some  packages like nginx can create such users, usually called nobody. And you can use this nobody for your purpose. But if you wish to have  non privilege user user with specific name, use the simple command useradd.

For instance to create user userx run the following command: useradd -s /bin/false userx.

Non privilege user create user adduser command

To newly created user try id command:

Non privilege user id check using id command