Re: best way to create pop only accounts

[erik.tews@gmx.net (Erik Tews)]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 09:21:45AM -0300, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    Which is the best way to create a POP only account? just change the
> last field in /etc/passwd to /bin/false?
> 
>    I want that the user will not be able to do anything on the machine
> but retriving mail.
> 
>    I will enable APOP in qpopper or use some ssl wrapper for POP3, will
> disable the plain password POP3.
> 
>    If I use APOP, then it uses /etc/pop.auth. I could then put "*" in
> the password field in /etc/shadow as it will never match any password.
> 
>    What do you think about this?

I am running cyrus imapd with user-accounts stored in a mysql-database.
So I don't need to create system-accounts. It works really fine here.