Re: Establishing a mail-only account?

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Am Di, den 27.07.2004 schrieb david um 19:38:

> Is there a way to define a user account for a remote user such that the 
> user can ONLY retrieve his/her
> mail via POP3 or IMAP, and cannot run any other functionality (such as 
> shell, or ftp?)
> 
> I am running FC2 server, command line only.

> David

Edit /etc/passwd and change the shell set for the existing user to
/bin/false. For new user creation use "useradd -s /bin/false".

Alexander


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