[wplug] passwd file

[Mike Griffin]

That's how I have my qmail server setup as well.
Yes, the best way is to change their shell to either /nologin or 
/bin/false.

Don't disable the password or the user won't be able to login to get 
their email.

Is there something similiar between all the mail users, such as in the 
same group that JUST mail users are in? If the mail users all have 
something in common, within /etc/passwd that is unique to only the mail 
users,  a script can easily be made to change all the mail users shells.

Mike


On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 01:28  PM, <vze2f6h6 at verizon.net> wrote:

>
>>
>> From: billings at negate.org
>> Date: 2003/07/11 Fri PM 01:04:27 EDT
>> To: wplug at wplug.org
>> Subject: Re: [wplug] passwd file
>>
>> On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 12:06, Chris wrote:
>>> I have a lot of system users that I don't what to be able to log on 
>>> locally.
>>> I know that I can use usermod -s /sbin/nologin username, but I don't 
>>> want to
>>> do that for every user.  Can I just edit the passwd file manually, 
>>> or are
>>> there more files that need to be changed?
>>>
>>> Chris Romano
>>
>> You say that you don't want the user to be able to log on locally, but
>> that means that they won't be able to log on at all.  Are you sure
>> that's what you want to do?
>>
>
> These users are only using the system for email.  They will not have 
> access to it any other way.  There are about 200+ users that are like 
> this.  I use qmail + Courier-Imap and I have them setup to you the 
> passwd file for usernames and passwords.  They don't care about the 
> shell.  I figured that be not allowing the access to the system, it 
> would secure the accounts better.
>
> Chris Romano
>
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