I heard that Ernest Johanson wrote this on 02/11/00: > You can assign the users a shell of /bin/false, which will prevent normal > logins to the machine. Users won't be able to directly set forwarding > either though, so you might need a way for them to do that. Somewhere I > have seen a CGI script that would administer forwarding through a web > page, but I don't remember where right now. If that's of interest, let me > know and I'll see if I can pull it up. > Instead of using /bin/false as a shell, and a CGI script to configure the account, he could make a shell script (or C program, for that matter) that allowed the user to change his password, create a .forward file, using some kind of system like "vacation" (comes with sendmail, I guess - never used it), etc.
Of course, if this is going to be implemented in an ISP (which means clueless lusers), telnetting/sshing to the ISP server to change the configuration of his account is probably too much to ask to the users. So I guess a CGI script would be better. Regards, sena... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://decoy.ath.cx/~sena/
