Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 18:02:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com> To: "M. Goodell" <freebsdutah@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Setting Up Email Only / Very Restricted Accounts Message-ID: <20050608180152.H23444@mail.goinet.com> In-Reply-To: <20050608224548.53538.qmail@web32406.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20050608224548.53538.qmail@web32406.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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That's what we do here. :) /sbin/nologin as the shell and if you want to allow ftp use a client that doesn't require a valid shell. On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, M. Goodell wrote: > Hello, > > What is the recommended method to setup E-Mail only accounts? I am running a server that will host several websites and also provide e-mail services for many site users. What I want to do is configure each user to only have email access and *no* shell access / ftp access of any kind. > > Is it good enough to simply use /usr/sbin/nologin as the shell and leave it at that or is there a more secure / better way of implementing this. > > Thank you. > > FreeBSDUtah > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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