Setting Up Email Only / Very Restricted Accounts

[John Brooks]

I use a combination of postfix, courier-imap, and mysql. It
eliminates the need for shell accounts. There are several
good tutorials at http://www.postfix.org/docs.html

--
John Brooks
john at day-light.com 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of M. Goodell
> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 5:46 PM
> To: FreeBSD Questions
> Subject: Setting Up Email Only / Very Restricted Accounts
> 
> 
> 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.
>  
> 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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