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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