Re: FC4 & pop users for sendmail

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Subject: Re: FC4 & pop users for sendmail
From: "C.F. Scheidecker Antunes" <nando@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:54:41 -0600
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Yes, That's what I've done! I've check how Linuxconf did it.
Thanks!

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

Am Fr, den 14.10.2005 schrieb C.F. Scheidecker Antunes um 18:02:

Therefore, the help I need is: How to create users that can only access 
email messages from a Linuxbox?

C.F.


Give the users no login shell. /bin/false or /sbin/nologin are for that
case. Please see "man useradd" and "man chsh".

Alexander

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- FC4 & pop users for sendmail
  - From: C.F. Scheidecker Antunes
- Re: FC4 & pop users for sendmail
  - From: Alexander Dalloz