Establishing a mail-only account?

Brian Gaynor briang at pmccorp.com
Tue Jul 27 18:19:45 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 10:55, Ding Li wrote:
> What's difference between /bin/false and /sbin/nologin?
> 

/sbin/nologin displays a configurable message that the account is not
available, /bin/false does not. man login is your friend.

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Brian Gaynor
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