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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Using POP without allowing login's
Date: 24 Oct 1995 01:06:50 +0100
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Mike Wilson <wilsonm@spartan.hsc.unt.edu> wrote:

>>give them /bin/false as a shell
>
>Or simply disable the login via login.access. Either way works just as well 
>:)

j@uriah 212% /sbin/nologin
This account is currently not available.

(Not discovered by me, but by Torsten Blum. :)
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)