chsh <userid>
and give /dev/null or /bin/false as shell. It is the simplest way...

On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > example, I want a group of people to all have valid e-mail accounts with
> > passwords but not have actual Linux accounts.  I would prefer to have one
> > text file I can modify on the server containing a list of e-mail users and
> > their passwords.  Can this be done?  Anyone know of good source for smail
> > documentation?  I think this can be done with sendmail - but that doesn't
> > help.
> 
> One simple approach is to give them real accounts with a shell of /bin/passwd.
> They can only login to - change password
> 
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