From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 8 23:02:36 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 7A5CF16A422 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 23:02:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from mail.goinet.com (mail.goinet.com [208.207.72.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2898243D1F for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 23:02:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from mail.goinet.com (localhost.goinet.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.goinet.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j58N2Nkc038158; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 18:02:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from localhost (tshadwick@localhost) by mail.goinet.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id j58N2MIZ038152; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 18:02:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.goinet.com: tshadwick owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 18:02:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Shadwick To: "M. Goodell" In-Reply-To: <20050608224548.53538.qmail@web32406.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20050608180152.H23444@mail.goinet.com> References: <20050608224548.53538.qmail@web32406.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.85.1, clamav-milter version 0.85 on mail.goinet.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Setting Up Email Only / Very Restricted Accounts X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 23:02:36 -0000 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" >