I heard that Jay Kelly wrote this on 01/11/00:
> Hello All,
> I have a question on Sendmail. I would like to give out email accounts but
> do not want to give them a debian account. All I want them to have access to
> is email. Can this be done? Now when I add a new email account I have to use
> "adduser" which creates a home directory. What are ISP's using?
> Thanks in advance for your help and time
>
I've never tried this approach, I just thought of it now...
Instead of using adduser (which I don't use), use useradd (I can give you
more advice on that)...
useradd doesn't create a home directory for the user by default. If your is
configured to do so, you can always use the "-M" flag (don't create a user
home directory).
Another thing: I guess that it would be nice (for ease of administration) to
create a group for mail-only accounts.
The preparation of your system:
i) Create a mail-only group:
groupadd -g 200 mailuser
The procedure to create mail-only users would be this one (you can include
it in a shell script):
i) Create the user:
useradd -M -g mailuser -s /bin/false <username>
ii) Enable the account:
passwd <username>
I don't know if there is any "correct" way to do this, it's just an idea.
You'd have to install a POP3 daemon, so your mail-only users can fetch their
mail.
Regards, sena...
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