On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Jay Daniels wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 04:22:45PM -0400, R P Herrold wrote:
> > > > > Can u any body teach me how to disable a useraccount
> > > > > in redhat linux6.1 . I used the 'userconf' command
> > > > > to disable(uncheck the check box of the account is
> > > > > enabled). But it is changing only the password of
> > > > > that user. but he receives mails. I want to
> > > > > restrict the mails for that user. how to do ?
> > and then disable ssh key based login as well:
> >
> > [ -e ~userid/.ssh ] && mv ~userid/.ssh ~userid/_.ssh
> Well, you clipped my response. So, what has ssh login got to do with
> him being able to receive mail? I thought he meant the user was still
> able to access his email account via pop3, imap etc?
I clip heavily as a matter of course -- If you feel I quoted
out of context, I apologize.
Absent special arangements (magic bounce code in the virtuser
or aliases tables), until the userid is affirmatively removed
-- userdel comes to mind, -- the mailserver will accept
inbound pieces toward [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...
The poster asked to disable, not remove an account. This is
pretty common in an ISP environment, where a customer's
payment is late or dishonored, and yet there is hope that the
account will be brought current -- simply disabling it allows
restoration of service.
With a locked password, most avenues of retrieving email off
the host (pop, imap, ftp) stop working. The 'backdoor' of
ssh/scp through a keyed access approach remains. Thus the
key dis-abling process step.
Ditto my remarks on cron and at -- they are back door ways
that email may be 'retrieved'.
I suppose one might need consider an NFS exported mailspool --
I know we use them with qpopper at one ISP I work with -- and
so it might also be needful to address that as well.
-- Russ Herrold
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