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Date:      Thu, 16 May 1996 10:37:48 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        paul@riker.comcirc.com.au (Paul Sondhu)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Setting up user accounts but with no email access
Message-ID:  <199605160107.KAA01060@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960514101101.5339A-100000@riker.comcirc.com.au> from "Paul Sondhu" at May 14, 96 10:13:00 am

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Paul Sondhu stands accused of saying:
> 
> 
> 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.

Symlink their mail spool files (in /var/mail) to /dev/null.

> The users cannot telnet into our server since I have not given them 
> read or execute permission to the default shell ( tcsh ) so they cant
> log onto the machine and use pine, elm, etc.

Easier would be to look at /etc/login.access.

> Paul Sondhu			Email: P.Sondhu@comcirc.com.au       

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