Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 15:28:24 -0600 (CST) From: James Wyatt <jwyatt@RWSystems.net> To: "Nicholas J. Dear" <ndear@areti.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: POP3 boxes. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903091524080.710-100000@kasie.rwsystems.net> In-Reply-To: <199903091736.RAA26419@post.mail.areti.net>
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Of course there are other ways to do it, this is Unix, right? 8{)
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Nicholas J. Dear wrote:
> We currently do POP3 boxes by creating a user and setting their shell to
> /bin/false and directing all mail to that account.
>
> Is there any other way to do it? If so, with what software, and would it require
> much work to implement?
If you are doing it this way, however, I would recommend using /bin/passwd
as it lets users telnet to change their passwords. You also want to ensure
you deny them FTP access if they have valid accounts and shells.
Your options depend on your POP server; most allow for other authenticaion
mechanisms like DBM files, radius, and such. You will also want to use
something other than /etc/passwd entries if you want to support
hundreds or thousands of POP users.
Knowing this group, more useful advice should be forthcoming - Jy@
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