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From: lww@eagle.ictech.com (Bill Warner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Mail only account?
Date: 10 Jun 1996 07:51:06 -0500
Organization: InterComm Technologies, Inc.
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In article <Pine.BSI.3.91.960609140854.9989A-100000@mammoth.valleynet.com>,
Scott Yarbrough  <syarbrough@valleynet.com> wrote:
>
>I have the user shell configured to /usr/bin/pine.. They go straight to 
>the pine mail reader, and when they quit pine it logs them off..
>

Unless you have done some fancy footwork with pine, your users can probably
still get a real shell by invoking a shell as an "alternate editor".  See the
pine archives <URL: http://www.washington.edu/pine/pine-info/index.html> for
details.

Bill
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