Establishing a mail-only account?

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On Jul 27, 2004 at 11:29, david in a soothing rage wrote:

>At 11:19 AM 7/27/2004, you wrote:
>>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.
>
>Yes, Brian..... man login is indeed my friend.  The real problem is that I 
>didn't think to look there.  I googled stuff like
>Linux Users, did man useradd, man pam, but never having typed in "login", I 
>didn't think to look there.
Aktually, one thing you could use is 'man -k <word>'. This will print 
a list of man pages. From there you can test to see which man page is
more appropiate.

N.Emile...
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