Re: User just for mail

[Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 08:16:25PM +0100, Calber Chainy wrote:
> I thought making the user and give him/her a special shell, but can't
> find it.

You've got the right idea.  Set the user's shell to /bin/false -
technically, he can still log in, but his shell will then immediately
exit without accepting any input.

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