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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!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!in2p3.fr!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de!seicom.de!blackbush.xlink.net!isar.de!news.muc.ditec.de!tartufo!me From: me@muc.ditec.de (Michael Elbel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Using POP without allowing login's Date: 26 Oct 95 12:29:57 GMT Organization: DITEC GmbH Lines: 21 Message-ID: <me.814710597@tartufo> References: <46ashl$t16@shiva.usa.net> <46joe6$5ap@palmer.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: me@FreeBSD.org NNTP-Posting-Host: tartufo.muc.ditec.de X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:8075 comp.mail.misc:23313 gary@palmer.demon.co.uk (Gary Palmer) writes: >In article <46ashl$t16@shiva.usa.net>, >Chris Erskine <cigcos.cerskine@eds.com> wrote: >>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. [...] >You can set the shell to /usr/bin/false (or even /usr/bin/true if you >want :-) ). I've been successfully using /usr/bin/passwd as login shell for that purpose. Gives the user the chance to change her password after all. Michael -- Michael Elbel, DITEC, Muenchen, Germany - me@muc.ditec.de Fermentation fault (coors dumped)