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From: Jesse <jesseh@on-ramp.ior.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [Q] POP: virtual clients?
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 21:49:37 -0800
Organization: Internet On-Ramp, Inc.
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To: mcurry@fred.net
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On 31 Jan 1997 mcurry@fred.net wrote:
:Why don't you make the login accounts, but disallow shell access?
:
:
: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.
::
:
:
We do this all the time. add a user as as you would anywhere else only do
the following. Set the home directory to nosuch (or something equally
nonexistant) set the shell to the same or set it to /usr/bin/passwd if you
want them to be able to change their pop password. That way they telnet to
the passwd program.
be sure to add /usr/bin/passwd to the list of valid shells in /etc/shells
if you do this.
If anybody sees a serious problem with this let me know.
Jesse Hires Technical Support Supervisor Internet On-Ramp, Inc
Spokane:(509)624-RAMP Coeur D'Alene:(208)ON-RAMP-5
I used to have a grip on life
....but then the handle broke
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