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Date:      Wed, 11 Sep 1996 14:10:19 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "S(pork)" <spork@super-g.com>
To:        Colin Ryan <drop@lglobal.com>
Cc:        "Samuel E. Romero" <ser@hon.hn>, FreeBSD ISP Mailing List <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Additional pop accounts - how?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.92.960911140922.20400B-100000@super-g.inch.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.960911150152.8705B-100000@presence.lglobal.com>

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Also, if you are using qpopper from Qualcomm, make sure it's not compiled
with the option to disallow access if the user doesn't have a valid
shell, or things will get really confusing...

Charles

On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Colin Ryan wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Samuel E. Romero wrote:
>
> Depends.
>
> If they have a legitamite PPP account already and you they just want
> another POP box, create the user but give home directory of /dev/null and
> /bin/false(or some other fake shell) as there shell. Then they
> cannot ftp or telnet to the account but popper works(unless you have user
> mail in there own home directories)
>
> If you want POP e-mail only accounts it's a bit trickier in that
> you do the above but must set filters on there PPP connection allowing
> only UDP,POP,DNS packets.
>
>
>
> > Hi!,
> >
> > How can I create additional pop-only accounts for a login account?.
> > I've seen that advertised in some places and I'd like to know how to
> > doit.
> > Somebody knows? or where can I found the info?
> > Thks.
> >
>
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