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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!news.stealth.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!news.winc.com!usenet From: "Matthew A. Gessner" <mgessner@aristar.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Email only Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 07:45:36 -0400 Organization: Aristar, Inc. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3237F7E0.41C67EA6@aristar.com> References: <50j0d4$lia@Nntp1.mcs.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: slip125.winc.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b8Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) vchiu@xnet.com wrote: > > Does anyone know how to let the users be able to have nothing but email > capability without other internet services such as WWW, Telnet, FTP? I know I > can make a "false" login shell but this still allow users to access WWW. > > Any idea? > > Vincent Why not create a special group for those who are allowed to have those privileges and then set the permission bits on those programs to be 770 with the special group as their group (i.e. use chmod and chgrp)? Of course, if they get their own copies of the software, that sort of gets around it. How smart are the users? -- Matthew Gessner, Computer Scientist, <mgessner@aristar.com> Aristar, Inc. 302 N. Cleveland-Massillon Rd. Akron, OH 44333 Voice (330) 668-2267, Fax (330) 668-2961