From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050923 CentOS/1.0.7-1.4.1.centos4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: user properties forces you to enter a home directory but should allow NO home directory Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-config-users-1.1.18-6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.create a user without a home directory and /sbin/nologin shell 2.click on user properties 3.change password 4.click ok Actual Results: you'll get a warning Please enter a home directory. Expected Results: should allow NO home directory Additional info:
Note that system-config-users is not meant to manage system accounts, these are meant to be handled by the packages that need them. If you build software by yourself, you can always use useradd e.a. to create system accounts. Normal users are expected to have a home directory always.