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From: Jesse Monroy <jmonroy@wco.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [Q] POP: virtual clients?
Date: 1 Feb 1997 03:39:14 GMT
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: Jesse Monroy (jmonroy@wco.com) wrote:
: : I'm checking to see if any of the packages for FreeBSD can have
: : virtual clients. By this I mean, NOT virtual email domains, but
: : users that can collect their email (with a pop3 client) and not
: : have a login account on the machine.
: : 
mcurry@fred.net wrote:
: Why don't you make the login accounts, but disallow shell access?
:
	This has already been suggested and it is not
	an acceptable solution.