From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 15 10:12:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA15757 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 10:12:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA15750 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 10:12:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from localhost (brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA06110; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 10:11:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 10:11:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Brooks Davis Reply-To: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net To: Matthew Hunt cc: Wes Peters , tom@uniserve.com, paulo@nlink.com.br, jer@jorsm.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Finger and getpwent In-Reply-To: <19980715101943.A27075@mstar.astro.psu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Matthew Hunt wrote: > I would find it surprising if an invalid shell prevented users from > using POP or IMAP. Disallowing shell logins and ftp while allowing > mail retrieval seems like a very common configuration; how would you > propose to setup a POP server if the POP daemon checked /etc/shells? That's a compile time option for qpopper. U-Washington IMAP doesn't seem to have one, which is kinda annoying. It's very useful in some environments since in may places, if you don't have shell we don't want you to have anything. I've even created an Apache module to require a valid shell to serve a web page so all we have to do to disable an account is change the shell. -- Brooks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message