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Re: email only accounts in Linux 5.0

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anthony E. Greene)
Wed Nov 25 17:47:28 1998

Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 23:29:49 +0100
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From: "Anthony E. Greene" <agreene@pobox.com>
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At 23:32 1998-11-25 +0530, Rafi wrote:
[...]
>We would like to give email only accounts (without shell or
>telnet access) with which POP clients can be used to pick up the users'
>mails from the POP server.  We are running proxy for local network.
>Clients are mostly windows 95/98.  
[...]

Edit the passwd file to make the user shell '/bin/false'.


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