Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 06:32:55 -0700 From: "M.R.Murphy" <mrm@Mole.ORG> To: terry@lambert.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, paul@riker.comcirc.com.au Subject: Re: Setting up user accounts but with no email access Message-ID: <199605151332.GAA24831@meerkat.mole.org>
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> > I am setting up a few user accounts on our WWW server so that users can > > FTP to the server to post up their web pages into their relevant > > web page directories. > > > > How can I disable email access for these users. ie. I dont want them > > to have an email account, only an account to FTP files to. > > The easiest (grossest) way would be to define another name for > the machine and *not* put in a Cw entry for it. [...] Add the users to the password file as usual. Then put a different mailer program instead of P=/usr/libexec/mail.local for Mlocal in /etc/sendmail.cf. Do in your replacement program what you will. That replacement program can be a script. Try this first to see how it behaves: #!/bin/sh echo $@ >>/tmp/mail.log exec /usr/libexec/mail.local $@ -- Mike Murphy mrm@Mole.ORG +1 619 598 5874 Better is the enemy of Good
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