On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 09:21:45AM -0300, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: > Hi, > > Which is the best way to create a POP only account? just change the > last field in /etc/passwd to /bin/false? > > I want that the user will not be able to do anything on the machine > but retriving mail. > > I will enable APOP in qpopper or use some ssl wrapper for POP3, will > disable the plain password POP3. > > If I use APOP, then it uses /etc/pop.auth. I could then put "*" in > the password field in /etc/shadow as it will never match any password. > > What do you think about this?
I am running cyrus imapd with user-accounts stored in a mysql-database. So I don't need to create system-accounts. It works really fine here.