Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 10:55:44 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: paul@riker.comcirc.com.au (Paul Sondhu) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting up user accounts but with no email access Message-ID: <199605141755.KAA12661@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960514101101.5339A-100000@riker.comcirc.com.au> from "Paul Sondhu" at May 14, 96 10:13:00 am
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> I am setting up a few user accounts on our WWW server so that users can > FTP to the server to post up their web pages into their relevant > web page directories. > > How can I disable email access for these users. ie. I dont want them > to have an email account, only an account to FTP files to. The easiest (grossest) way would be to define another name for the machine and *not* put in a Cw entry for it. Then set up aliases for all the users that you don't want to get mail to forward to the illegal host. Alternately, you could bounce mail with a refusal using an alias script (but that would require a bit more work). This will keep the mail from accumulating, anyway. > At the moment they can use a pop client since a pop server is running on > the machine. I dont want to remove the popper daemon since there are > a few accounts on there who need pop email access. This is more of a problem, since they will be able to send from your system anyway. Probably, you want to hack the popper to not accept users unless they have a valid shell. Really, this is what user classes should have been, but aren't, in the BSDI user class code. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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