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#! rnews 1663 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-peer.gsl.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!news.icm.edu.pl!uw.edu.pl!news.nask.pl!news.icmp.lviv.ua!not-for-mail From: "Petrovych Oleg" <oleg@icmp.lviv.ua> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: mail accounts Date: 18 Apr 1997 21:46:56 GMT Organization: ICMP Lines: 29 Message-ID: <01bc4c41$e2d6bb80$0fe47cc1@fantom> References: <335665A5.29E2@spacey.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: fantom.icmp.lviv.ua Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39333 Gregory James Cusick <gcusick@harris.com> wrote in article <335665A5.29E2@spacey.net>... > Couple ISP-type questions: > FreeBSD: > What is a good way to provide an email-only user account? I will use a > pop3 server for access. I'm guessing that I need to not provide a login > shell for the user? Any other strategies? I have made next: (in master.passwd) test:**********:1101:100::0:0:POP3 user:/home/pop_user/test:/usr/bin/passwd c01:**********:1102:100::0:0:User from C01:/home/pop_user/c01:/usr/bin/passwd ^^^^^^^^^^^ user can only change own password > > Thanks! > > Greg > ------------------------------------------------------------------ Institute for Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory of Information Tecnology and Computer Network Petrovych Oleg phone: +380 322 769821 e-mail: oleg@ICMP.Lviv.UA oleg@uar.net