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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Mail only account?
Date: 14 Jun 1996 08:56:20 GMT
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jmccorm@galstar.com (Josh McCormick) wrote:

> 1] Create a user directory called "mailonly". (Assuming your user directories
>    are all under "/home", you would create a directory called 
>    "/home/mailonly". Make it world readable, but with nothing in it.

Or better, put an empty file named ``.hushlogin'' there.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j