From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 12 0:28: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1610037B401 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 00:28:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (ei.xs4all.nl [213.84.67.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61C4443ED8 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 00:27:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fbsd-q@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBC8TBmW051939; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:29:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from stable@ei.bzerk.org) Received: (from stable@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBC8TB5j051938; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:29:11 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:29:11 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot To: Keith Spencer Cc: fbsd Subject: Re: are virtual mail account users possible with sendmail on freebsd Message-ID: <20021212082911.GA51777@ei.bzerk.org> References: <20021212035849.47095.qmail@web12006.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021212035849.47095.qmail@web12006.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 02:58:49PM +1100, Keith Spencer typed: > Hi all, > I am wondering how I can add mail acocunts without > actually creating full-blown user accounts for my lan > users. Not exactly what you are asking, but you could run sendmail in a jail(8). That way, you have a passwd file for your mailusers independant of your system passwd file. > I have sendmail on fbsd 4.7 (new build machine and I > dont want to create shell accnts for all my users on > this new machine) If you give them /sbin/nologin as default shell, your users won't have a shell account but will still be able to fetch their (pop3) email. > Whatever help you might give me perhaps I can use > webmin to add the new users... I have 600 users to > add. > Whoa...thats a lot of work..HELP???!! It's quite easy to make a script using pw(8) to automatically add a lot of users accounts. cheers, Ruben > Thanks so much in adavnce > Keith > > http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings > - Send your seasons greetings online this year! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message