From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 18 07:55:28 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA18382 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 07:55:28 -0700 Received: from aztec.co.za (aztec.co.za [196.7.70.131]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA18376 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 07:55:22 -0700 Received: from [196.3.252.63] by aztec.co.za with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #2) id m0suhYU-000KexC; Mon, 18 Sep 95 16:52 EET Message-Id: Date: Mon, 18 Sep 95 16:52 EET Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: freeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org From: harverso@aztec.co.za (Tony Harverson) Subject: Re: POP Mailboxes Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >On Fri, 15 Sep 1995 bmk@dtr.com wrote: > >> The same way you set up a "normal" mailbox. popper simply reads the >> user's mail out of the mail spool. > >Which means if you don't want them to have logon accounts, you'll want to >set their shell to /bin/false and their home directories to /tmp. Never >done it on my FreeBSD machine, but I suspect this also means that you'll >need to add /bin/false to /etc/shells. Errmm.. Well, you could I spose, but if you leave it out, even if someone manages to put a copy of csh called false in the bin directory, he will still be denied access on the grounds of an invalid shell.. Tony