From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 15 11:33:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA11336 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 11:33:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [194.93.177.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA11284 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 11:33:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@relay.ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA00330; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 21:32:49 +0300 (EEST) From: Ruslan Ermilov Message-Id: <199710151832.VAA00330@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Subject: Re: mail account only, no login In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19971015092945.006b5db4@danny-boy.com> from Brian Hopkins at "Oct 15, 97 09:29:47 am" To: hop@danny-boy.com (Brian Hopkins) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 21:32:48 +0300 (EEST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-My-Interests: Unix,Oracle,Networking X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Once Brian Hopkins wrote: > Is there a way to create "mail only" accounts? I want my bsd 2.1.7 machine > to only deliver mail via popper and act as a proxy (using squid). Yes, use /sbin/nologin as the shell for mail-only user. -- Ruslan A. Ermilov System Administrator ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank +380-652-247647 Simferopol, Crimea 2426679 ICQ Network, UIN