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Date:      Wed, 15 Jul 1998 17:06:16 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
To:        Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com>
Cc:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, tom@uniserve.com, paulo@nlink.com.br, jer@jorsm.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Finger and getpwent
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.00.9807151703420.16276-100000@markab.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
In-Reply-To: <19980715101943.A27075@mstar.astro.psu.edu>

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On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Matthew Hunt wrote:
> I would find it surprising if an invalid shell prevented users from
> using POP or IMAP.  Disallowing shell logins and ftp while allowing
> mail retrieval seems like a very common configuration; how would you
> propose to setup a POP server if the POP daemon checked /etc/shells?

In principle you could set the shell to /usr/bin/yes (or any dummy shell)
and add that to /etc/shells.

Gerald
-- 
Gerald Pfeifer (Jerry)      Vienna University of Technology
pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at   http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/


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