[NTLUG:Discuss] Virtual Mail Users

[Jay Urish]

At 02:19 PM 4/15/2004, you wrote:
>I am running sendmail on RH 9 and would like to provide my users with POP3
>accounts without providing them with an account they could use to get a shell
>on the mail server.  I've googled extensively, but the information I've
>gotten is obtuse at best.  I am authenticating the users using Cyrus SASL
>both for sending and receiving.  Any suggestions or pointers to documentation
>are appreciated.

You can do what you want by just giving them a normal account and editing 
/etc/passwd and make their shell point to /bin/false