Set up user for running server program (like www-data is for apache)

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Hello,

I am running Ubuntu 9.10 and would like to set up a few custom server programs. I don't think I should be running them as root, and I have no need to. How do I create a user and group that is similar to www-data for apache?

Thanks,

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