From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 15 17:58:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA07947 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 May 1996 17:58:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA07940; Wed, 15 May 1996 17:58:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA01060; Thu, 16 May 1996 10:37:49 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605160107.KAA01060@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Setting up user accounts but with no email access To: paul@riker.comcirc.com.au (Paul Sondhu) Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 10:37:48 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Paul Sondhu" at May 14, 96 10:13:00 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Paul Sondhu stands accused of saying: > > > 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. Symlink their mail spool files (in /var/mail) to /dev/null. > The users cannot telnet into our server since I have not given them > read or execute permission to the default shell ( tcsh ) so they cant > log onto the machine and use pine, elm, etc. Easier would be to look at /etc/login.access. > Paul Sondhu Email: P.Sondhu@comcirc.com.au -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[