Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 17:06:16 +0200 (MET DST) From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> To: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> Cc: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, tom@uniserve.com, paulo@nlink.com.br, jer@jorsm.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Finger and getpwent Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.00.9807151703420.16276-100000@markab.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <19980715101943.A27075@mstar.astro.psu.edu>
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On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Matthew Hunt wrote: > I would find it surprising if an invalid shell prevented users from > using POP or IMAP. Disallowing shell logins and ftp while allowing > mail retrieval seems like a very common configuration; how would you > propose to setup a POP server if the POP daemon checked /etc/shells? In principle you could set the shell to /usr/bin/yes (or any dummy shell) and add that to /etc/shells. Gerald -- Gerald Pfeifer (Jerry) Vienna University of Technology pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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