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Date:      Mon, 18 Sep 95 16:52 EET
From:      harverso@aztec.co.za (Tony Harverson)
To:        freeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: POP Mailboxes
Message-ID:  <m0suhYU-000KexC@aztec.co.za>

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>On Fri, 15 Sep 1995 bmk@dtr.com wrote:
>

>> The same way you set up a "normal" mailbox.  popper simply reads the
>> user's mail out of the mail spool.
>
>Which means if you don't want them to have logon accounts, you'll want to 
>set their shell to /bin/false and their home directories to /tmp. Never 
>done it on my FreeBSD machine, but I suspect this also means that you'll 
>need to add /bin/false to /etc/shells.

Errmm.. Well, you could I spose, but if you leave it out, even if someone
manages to put a copy of csh called false in the bin directory, he will
still be denied access on the grounds of an invalid shell..

Tony





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