Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (636 mails)

["Thomas Michael Wanka" <tm_wanka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 23 Feb 2001, at 11:36, Steffen Dettmer wrote:

> > How can I restrict access to only just the corresponding e-mail
> > account so users could not log on to the mail server by a terminal
> > client?

You could give them no shell or write a script that says "only mail 
account", I think you will find references in the archive of this list.

> 
> Use "virtual Mailbox users". That are users for POP & Co. that
> are not know to the systems. An example is vmailmgr which works
> with "qmail". Other projects store users in a database, I've

You do not need vmailmgr to have "virtual" accounts. You can use a 
database for authentication to qmail.


HTH
mike