Re: Maildir format

[Peter C. Norton]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 12:09:13AM -0600, Bruce Guenter wrote:

> Good thought, especially with the tunneling options, but unless things
> have changed, SSH still requires shell access -- something that should
> not be required for mailbox access.

Not really.  It only spawns a shell because sshd's usual procedure is to
invoke /bin/login as it's last action (step 10 in the sshd(8) version 1 man
page).  If you give the server a unique user, and that user has the server
binary as it's shell... then you've saved some effort for yourself.

Sshd can be very tightly restricted by an admin.

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