Re: Solution for mail pseudo-users?

[Alex Zepeda]

On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Alex Povolotsky wrote:

> I'm going to implement a large mail-box, with several hundreds of mail-only
> users. They should never access anything besides their POP3 mailboxes and
> change password via (SSLed) web interface.
> 
> So, I don't want to add all of them to /etc/passwd.

The easiest way I can think of would be to add them to /etc/passwd and set
their shell and home dir to /nonexistant. Ideally you wouldn't be running
any other daemons, so there'd be no real way for them to access files; but
the stock ftpd, as well as sshd offer ways to disable access to specific
users.

Dealing with "real" users IMO is quite a bit less hackish.

- alex

You wear guilt,
like shackles on your feet,
Like a halo in reverse
  - Depeche Mode




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