From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Mar 9 18: 4: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from aloha.cc.columbia.edu (aloha.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.59.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 840821505B for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 18:04:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stuyman@confusion.net) Received: from confusion.net (dialup-22-9.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.47.93]) by aloha.cc.columbia.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA15650; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 21:03:21 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36E5D2CE.93F1DD1D@confusion.net> Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 21:02:54 -0500 From: Laurence Berland Organization: B.R.A.T.T. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Wyatt Cc: "Nicholas J. Dear" , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: POP3 boxes. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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@ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message -- Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> 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. http://stuy.debate.net icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message