Addition of user

[Peter Risdon]

doug wrote:

>You can also set the shell to passwd.
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That's a good point, based on a closer reading of the OP than my own. 
The difference being that it requires the addition of a user for each 
mail account whereas something like vpopmail does not. I've googled but 
can't see anything about this so for my information, I generally use 
/nonexistent as the shell in situations like this, and add /nonexistent 
to /etc/shells. Is there a difference between using /passwd and 
something like /nonexistent?

PWR.

>On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Peter Risdon wrote:
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>>Jeffrey Allan D. Java wrote:
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>>>Hi,
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>>>Is it possible to add an email account in a mail server without 
>>>a shell account?
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>>Yes, by using some additional software to manage the virtual user. 
>>/usr/ports/mail/vpopmail is one such, but there are others.
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>>PWR.
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