Re: Establishing a mail-only account?

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Subject: Re: Establishing a mail-only account?
From: Ding Li <achillis2002@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:55:38 -0700
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What's difference between /bin/false and /sbin/nologin?

Thanks

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

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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