Fwd: only POP3

["R. W. Rodolico" <rodo@dailydatainc.com>]

I give individual accounts e-mail only access by giving them a standard 
e-mail account but setting their home directory and their login shell to 
/dev/null or /dev/false. So, an entry in the passwd file looks like this:

user1:x:101:103::/dev/null:/dev/null

Which gives them and e-mail account, but no other access.

Rod



> Hi there!
>
> I have a short question:
> What's the way, if I would like to provide only e-mail service to the
> users? No telnet, ftp account, only POP3.
> It works with giving a fake shell in the passwd file, but how would you do
> it? Should I create definitely a shell account?
>
> thanx: aboy

R. W. "Rod" Rodolico
Daily Data, Inc.
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