Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 09:07:47 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Lord Raiden <raiden23@netzero.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bitbucket Message-ID: <20020802080747.GC51805@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020802040157.009fcb80@pop.netzero.net> References: <4.2.0.58.20020802040157.009fcb80@pop.netzero.net>
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On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 04:04:28AM -0400, Lord Raiden wrote:
> Ok, this might sound stupid, but where is the "bit bucket" in
> freebsd? Is it /var/null?
/dev/null
> I'm wanting to make a bunch of user accounts with only mail access
> to one of the servers and I wanted to set the home dir as null basically.
> AKA they have no home dir.
/dev/null is not really appropriate for that --- it's not a directory.
It's usual uses treat it as a file: for reading, it is effectively
zero length and for writing it's infinitely long.
What you should do is create an empty directory and set the
permissions on it to be unwritable by your mail-only users:
mkdir /var/no-fixed-abode
chown root:wheel /var/no-fixed-abode
chmod 0555 /var/no-fixed-abode
Use that as the home dir for all your mail users.
Cheers,
Matthew
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