non-login accounts (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Fri, 2 Aug 1996 21:08:51 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Philip A. Fitzpatrick shaped the electrons to say...
>I want to create some accounts which will be e-mail only accounts, and I am
>currently using "UNIX" style passwords. Can I create dummy user records
>which specify non-login accounts?

Yes, or just configure them as PPP uses with strict filters so that they
can't do anything except email. Then on the host give them a fake shell
so they can't login with Telnet, etc.

-MZ

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