Re: help: setting up dial-in mail server

1999-07-09 Thread Brad
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Pollywog wrote: > On 09-Jul-99 Carl Mummert wrote: > > > > Why not just set their shell to /bin/false or some such. > > > > That prevents login access, and should prevent ftp access > > (you have to check - try man ftpd ). But it allows pop > > access, and imap access. > >

Re: help: setting up dial-in mail server

1999-07-09 Thread Bob Billson
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 02:00:07AM -0400, Carl Mummert wrote: > Why not just set their shell to /bin/false or some such. Thanks. I'll give it a try. bob

Re: help: setting up dial-in mail server

1999-07-09 Thread Pollywog
On 09-Jul-99 Carl Mummert wrote: > > > Why not just set their shell to /bin/false or some such. > > That prevents login access, and should prevent ftp access > (you have to check - try man ftpd ). But it allows pop > access, and imap access. Does setting the shell to /bin/false prevent ftp ac

Re: help: setting up dial-in mail server

1999-07-09 Thread Marc Mongeon
I've just done something similar here at Ban-Koe. I just set up normal PPP access, then used ipfwadm to filter out all packets except those destined for the appropriate ports on the mail server. It appears to be working-- allows access to the mail server, and prevents any other types of use. I'd

Re: help: setting up dial-in mail server

1999-07-09 Thread Carl Mummert
Why not just set their shell to /bin/false or some such. That prevents login access, and should prevent ftp access (you have to check - try man ftpd ). But it allows pop access, and imap access. Carl

Re: help: setting up dial-in mail server

1999-07-09 Thread Dan
Also, I don't know if this is at all helpful, but the mail daemon, qpopper is made by Qualcomm, who of course make Eudora. So maybe compatibility might help there. I am not sure exactly what your setup could be, but I thought I'd let you know in case you didn't. From: Bob Billson <[EMAIL PROT