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Date:      Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:25:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Numard (Norberto Meijome)" <numard@smartmedia.com.ar>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Only MAIL / FTP user?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807161325190.21519-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35AABE13.D268E9FC@smartmedia.com.ar>

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On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Numard (Norberto Meijome) wrote:

> Hi!
> i need to create user accounts only for POP access or FTP access (or
> both, but no shell access). Can i do that with the login.conf (setting
> up a class for that?) i wouldn't want to give'm a home dir,just the pop
> account.
> Any comments & ideas are MORE than welcome :)

Give them a shell that doesn't actually exist but list it in /etc/shells.
The best target for this is /sbin/nologin.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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