Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 00:23:26 -0500 (EST) From: doug <doug@fledge.watson.org> To: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Addition of user Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1040227002030.82356C-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <403DB892.8050608@circlesquared.com>
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The user can change their password. If you have a control panel or some other facility I think nonexistent would be better. On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Peter Risdon wrote: > doug wrote: > > >You can also set the shell to passwd. > > > > > That's a good point, based on a closer reading of the OP than my own. > The difference being that it requires the addition of a user for each > mail account whereas something like vpopmail does not. I've googled but > can't see anything about this so for my information, I generally use > /nonexistent as the shell in situations like this, and add /nonexistent > to /etc/shells. Is there a difference between using /passwd and > something like /nonexistent? > > PWR. >
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