On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 04:49:33PM -0600, Eric Lambart wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 12:20 -0600, Chris Schumann wrote:
> > I want to set up Cyrus IMAP on a server with a bunch of accounts, but I
> > don't want to have logins for each user.

use libnssmysql and create the accounts in a mysql database.


> 
> To prevent shell access/logins for a particular user, edit
> the /etc/passwd file (preferably with vipw) and change each user's shell
> from (for example) "/bin/bash" to "/bin/true".  "/bin/false" also seems
> to work--I'm not clear if there's any reason to use one over the other.
> Anyone want to clarify that?

chsh -s /bin/false <user>

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