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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!chi-news.cic.net!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!lrz-muenchen.de!faui0n.informatik.uni-erlangen.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Using POP without allowing login's Date: 29 Oct 1995 18:04:38 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <470c76$16e@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <46ashl$t16@shiva.usa.net> <46joe6$5ap@palmer.demon.co.uk> <46mpfj$pgj@fido.asd.sgi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Keywords: POP3, sendmail, perl Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:7938 comp.mail.misc:23200 JT McDuffie <mcduffie@kira.engr.sgi.com> wrote: >As to why -- I don't want to have to create large numbers of fake >"home directories" for mail-only clients, and I want the flexability >to create special spool directories as well (allowing me to spread >the load across file systems). You don't need a separate home dir for faked users. Mail delivery is being done by login name (into /var/mail), so all you need is a single separate home dir, and /sbin/nologin as login ``shell''. (As long as you don't put /sbin/nologin into /etc/shells, this will also disable ftp access.) -- 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. ;-)