Re: Email only users, and Bulk User Adds/Removes

1997-12-09 Thread mike
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Ferenc Kiraly wrote: > Hi! > > > Is there a way to establish an email only account? Also is there a way > > One thing you can do is give the user /bin/false insted of a shell. Just out of curiosity, is it bad to assign users a shell of /dev/null ? I was paranoi

RE: Email only users, and Bulk User Adds/Removes

1997-12-09 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Daniel Martin writes: [snip] > is all that they can do). Also, you may wish to create a > directory under /home (for example, called /home/nologin) with mode 755 > owned by root, and then set all the users' home directories to that > instead of the default. (Of course, you can't do this if

RE: Email only users, and Bulk User Adds/Removes

1997-12-09 Thread Daniel Martin
On 08-Dec-97 Darren Renaud wrote: > Is there a way to establish an email only account? Also is there a way > to add or remove a large amount of those accounts (if they can exist)? > I'm setting up a system for student email, and have to add or remove 40+ > accounts per semester. I'd like to limit

Re: Email only users, and Bulk User Adds/Removes

1997-12-09 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Darren Renaud wrote: > Is there a way to establish an email only account? Also is there a way > to add or remove a large amount of those accounts (if they can exist)? > I'm setting up a system for student email, and have to add or remove 40+ > accounts per semester. I'd like t

RE: Email only users, and Bulk User Adds/Removes

1997-12-08 Thread Ralph Winslow
On 08-Dec-97 Darren Renaud wrote: >Is there a way to establish an email only account? Also is there a way >to add or remove a large amount of those accounts (if they can exist)? >I'm setting up a system for student email, and have to add or remove 40+ >accounts per semester. I'd like to limit the

Re: Email only users, and Bulk User Adds/Removes

1997-12-08 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! > Is there a way to establish an email only account? Also is there a way One thing you can do is give the user /bin/false insted of a shell. > to add or remove a large amount of those accounts (if they can exist)? You will have to write a little script to do that for you. > I'm set

Email only users, and Bulk User Adds/Removes

1997-12-08 Thread Darren Renaud
Is there a way to establish an email only account? Also is there a way to add or remove a large amount of those accounts (if they can exist)? I'm setting up a system for student email, and have to add or remove 40+ accounts per semester. I'd like to limit the accounts to POP3 only, and prevent tho