From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 7 4:22:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.psknet.com (orion.psknet.com [207.198.61.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3551637B4CF for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 04:22:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 68341 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2000 12:22:30 -0000 Received: from abyss.dashit.net (HELO abyss) (209.100.22.250) by orion.psknet.com with SMTP; 7 Nov 2000 12:22:30 -0000 From: "Troy Settle" To: "Kevin Greenidge" , Subject: RE: Adding Non-Interactive Users Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 07:23:58 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <200011071020.eA7AKDC03861@bigbox.ath.cx> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal X-AntiVirus: scanned for viruses by Pulaski Networks (http://www.psknet.com) using AMaViS (http://www.amavis.org) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Reccomend disabling telnet completely. Use ssh, as it's a bit more secure. I would also suggest that you refrain from putting any users in the 'mail' group. This is for the mail daemons to use. Finally, to prevent logins, set each user's shell to /sbin/nologin (same as most of the system accounts). HTH, -- Troy Settle Pulaski Networks 540.994.4254 It's always a long day, 86400 doesn't fit into a short. ** -----Original Message----- ** From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG ** [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of ** Kevin Greenidge ** Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 5:20 AM ** To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG ** Subject: Adding Non-Interactive Users ** ** ** Is it possible to add users just for mail and not allow them to ** telnet in? When I assign users to the "mail" group I still find that ** they're able to telnet or ssh into the box. How will accomplish just ** giving them access to pop3 and smtp? ** ** Thanks. ** ** -->> FREE Perl CGI scripts add WEB ACCESS to your ** -->> POP E-Mail accounts! Download today!! http://www.adjeweb.com ** ** ** ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org ** with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ** ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message