Re: Establishing a mail-only account?

From: Christian Loza (christianl_at_unete.com.bo)
Date: 07/28/04

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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:36:09 -0400

    I believe there is no difference. Both may be scripts that deny usage of
    a terminal. There is a lot of ways to deny terminal access. I created my
    own in /bin/noAccess,
    so you can use any of them.

    On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 10:55 -0700, Ding Li wrote:

    > What's difference between /bin/false and /sbin/nologin?
    >
    > Thanks
    >
    > Alexander Dalloz wrote:
    >
    > >Am Di, den 27.07.2004 schrieb david um 19:38:
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > >>Is there a way to define a user account for a remote user such that the
    > >>user can ONLY retrieve his/her
    > >>mail via POP3 or IMAP, and cannot run any other functionality (such as
    > >>shell, or ftp?)
    > >>
    > >>I am running FC2 server, command line only.
    > >>
    > >>
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > >>David
    > >>
    > >>
    > >
    > >Edit /etc/passwd and change the shell set for the existing user to
    > >/bin/false. For new user creation use "useradd -s /bin/false".
    > >
    > >Alexander
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > >
    >
    > 

    -- 
Christian Loza <christianl@unete.com.bo>
UNETE Telecomunicaciones Ltda.



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