Setting Up Email Only / Very Restricted Accounts

[Daniel Gerzo]

Hi M.,

Thursday, June 9, 2005, 12:45:48 AM, you contributed this to our collective wisdom:

> Hello,
 
> What is the recommended method to setup E-Mail only accounts? I
> am running a server that will host several websites and also provide
> e-mail services for many site users. What I want to do is configure
> each user to only have email access and *no* shell access / ftp
> access of any kind.

postfix+mysql+postfixadmin.

http://high5.net/postfixadmin/

check howto at:
http://postfixwiki.org/index.php?title=Virtual_Users_and_Domains_with_Courier-IMAP_and_MySQL
 
> Is it good enough to simply use /usr/sbin/nologin as the shell
> and leave it at that or is there a more secure / better way of
> implementing this.
 
> Thank you.
 
> FreeBSDUtah

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