Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 21:02:54 -0500 From: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> To: James Wyatt <jwyatt@RWSystems.net> Cc: "Nicholas J. Dear" <ndear@areti.net>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: POP3 boxes. Message-ID: <36E5D2CE.93F1DD1D@confusion.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903091524080.710-100000@kasie.rwsystems.net>
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With very little short term interest in setting this up, but perhaps as a long term
venue, how exactly would I go about setting up a method other than user accounts for
authentication
James Wyatt wrote:
> 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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Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate
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Windows 98: n.
useless extension to a minor patch release for
32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a
16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor,
written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for
1 bit of competition.
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