From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 30 1:21:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4F5337B400 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 01:21:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clientmail.ehsrealtime.com (eris.ehsrealtime.com [213.52.146.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F19B43E65 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 01:19:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wayne@penguinpowered.org.uk) Received: from set.ehsrealtime.com ([213.52.146.197]) by clientmail.ehsrealtime.com with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17ZRr1-0001bN-01; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 08:55:39 +0100 Received: from waynep by set.ehsrealtime.com with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 17ZSnJ-0000XY-00; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 08:55:53 +0000 From: Wayne Pascoe To: Steven Lake Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User auth through database References: Date: 30 Jul 2002 08:55:52 +0000 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Civil Service) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steven Lake writes: > Hi again. Quick question. Is there a port, or a good tutorial > guide on how to setup a server so that users can get mail but not > actually have a legitimate shell account on the server. I only want three > actual accounts that can login to the machine through sell and the > console, but I want Qpopper to treat the users as though they actually > had a shell account on the machine. What you want to do is definitely doable but it may come down to the MTA that you use. I use exim with vmail-sql http://www.ex-parrot.com/~chris/vmail-sql/ It also lets you do very cool things with hosting multiple domains on a single machine. HTH. -- - Wayne Pascoe - http://www.penguinpowered.org.uk/wayne/ Everything to excess. To enjoy the flavour of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. - Robert Heinlein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message