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From: angio@aros.net (Dave Andersen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Using POP without allowing login's
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Date: 28 Oct 1995 23:21:14 GMT
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JT McDuffie (mcduffie@kira.engr.sgi.com) wrote:
: As to why -- I don't want to have to create large numbers of fake
: "home directories" for mail-only clients, and I want the flexability
: to create special spool directories as well (allowing me to spread
: the load across file systems).
It's only a partial solution, but you can always just modify adduser
a tiny bit to have $home default to something that's already created, and
then comment out the &home_create($name, $group_login); line. You
wouldn't end up creating extra directories for your mail accounts, though
you'd still need password file entries for them.
-Dave Andersen
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