Establishing a mail-only account?

Edward Croft ecroft at OPENRATINGS.com
Wed Jul 28 15:39:17 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 11:36, Christian Loza wrote:
> > >Edit /etc/passwd and change the shell set for the existing user to
> > >/bin/false. For new user creation use "useradd -s /bin/false".
> > >
> > >Alexander
> > >
> > >
> > >  

You can also use usermod -s /bin/false username to modify current users
rather than editing the /etc/passwd file.

-- 
Edward M. Croft
Sr. Systems Engineer
Open Ratings, Inc.
200 West Street
Waltham, MA 02451-1121





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