How about creating a normal account for Greg and putting a "logout" command in his profile? On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > Gregory Nowak said the following on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 08:36:38PM -0600: > > I've got a couple of mail admin questions. > > 1. I would like to be able to have a mail box for a user (say Greg). > > I would like Greg to send his mail via smtp, and get it via pop3 or imap. > > However, I would not like Greg to be able to login in to the system itself . > > How would I accomplish this? > > I'm assuming I'd need to add Greg to /etc/passwd, but > > I'm not sure exactly what should go in there. > > Add the user like a normal user but fr the sehll put in something bogus > like /usr/bin/false r something like that. If you want to make thing > official you can actually make a shell called /usr/bin/false with an > echo statement saying you cannot log into this account via a shell and > put this line in the /etc/shells. We do it all the time fr mail-only > users. > > > 2. I would like to put a quota on Greg's mailbox (/var/mail/greg). > > Is this done with the regular Linux quota system, or does sendmail have its own quota control? > > The quota for general Linux will wrk fr this I believe but at this pint > I'm nly guessing. > > Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waning Gibbous (92% of Full)
