RE: Email accounts on FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE

Hi,

Your language is not the problem, I think everyone here understands what
you're saying, just not what you mean.
I assume you want to give people e-mail accounts and nothing more. No
SSH, no FTP, nothing. In that case, creating a full-blown system account
is not only a waste of resources, it's also potentially insecure and
adds a lot of administrative concerns.

I'd suggest you go with a virtual-domain type of mail hosting.
Personally I've used qmail (the mail server - you should replace
sendmail with this one on your system anyway) with both vmailmgr and
vpopmail, which go about slightly differently trying to solve roughly
the same problem. Basically they implement their own authentication
scheme, not requiring any system accounts (well .. one is needed for
administration and storage of the virtual domains, but that can be
either your own account or a special account you set up for that
purpose).

I'd say vpopmail is closest to what you want, atleast among the
solutions I've tested personally. I suggest you do a bit of googling,
there are several good HOWTOs out there describing in detail how to set
up qmail and these tools. Sometimes you'll have to adopt it a bit for
FreeBSD, but in general that's not a problem.

Good luck!

/Eirik

On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 23:16, Alex Ayala wrote:
> Ok, maybe...yes I read what I wrote and didn't quite explain what I really
> wanted to say.
> 
> I want to setup accounts on my box so users can retrieve emails by accessing
> my pop server. Do I need to setup user accounts on my box with the "adduser"
> command? I don't want them to be able to have access to the shell by any
> means.  Is like when I wanted to give someone access to my ftp server I just
> created an account and took out the shell part in the passwd file.  Sorry my
> english is not the greatest.  Trying to explain something and can't find the
> right words.
> 
> Is that a bit better to understand?
> 
> A
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Mark Murray
> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 4:51 PM
> To: Alex Ayala
> Cc: freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Email accounts on FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE
> 
> 
> "Alex Ayala" writes:
> >
> > I got a question, if I want to create an email account on my Freebsd 5.1
> > box, but not let them have shell access do I just do a "adduser" and
> specify
> > /sbin/nologin?
> 
> "If I want an off-road vehicle, do I just buy a Land Rover?" It usually
> comes to quite a lot more than that, depending on what it is you want
> to do _exactly_.
> 
> The above will work in certain circumstances, but simple testing will
> tell you that. What we can't tell is whether you need a Land Rover or
> a Bulldozer. :-)
> 
> M
> --
> Mark Murray
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