Re: best way to create pop only accounts
Hi,
If I were you I'd use Dbmail (www.dbmail.org, cvs version).
It has got all this and more.
Best regards,
Eelco
On 11-03-2002 13:21, "Pedro Zorzenon Neto" <pzn@terra.com.br> 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?
>
> Thanks,
> Pedro
>
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