[TriLUG] how do I add an email account

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 10:38, Jason Tower wrote:
> 1. you can create a local account and disable shell access by setting 
> the login shell to /bin/false or whatever.  that way it is impossible 
> to login as that user, ever with the password.  not exactly what you 
> wanted but it's close enough for a lot of cases.

This is what I do on several systems, it works well.  Note that in most
set ups in order to receive e-mail the user WILL need to have a home
directory, because the e-mail has to be stored somewhere.  But they
don't need to have shell or FTP/scp/sftp access to that home directory.

--Jeremy


> On Tuesday 27 January 2004 10:27, Ralph Blach wrote:
> > Hi, I want to add an email account for a person without giving that
> > person a home directory on my linux box.
> >

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