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From: cigcos.cerskine@eds.com (Chris Erskine)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Using POP without allowing login's
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 13:36:14 GMT
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I have a box running Free BSD on it.  Does anyone know how to set the
system up to support mail users only without allowing them to login.

The problems which I see are that:
  1) Sendmail needs the user ID in the passwd file to know that the
user is a registered user.
  2) Qpopper requires the user to have a valid user id and password to
connect to the POP server.

Thanks,
Chris