Very Computer

Does anyone know how to let the users be able to have nothing but email
capability without other internet services such as WWW, Telnet, FTP? I know I
can make a "false" login shell but this still allow users to access WWW.

Any idea?

Vincent

The most secure way is roll your own login "shell" (which could be a
shell script) which does a "chroot" command and restricts access to
only that part of a file system that you specify.  This is a bit
tedious to set up, however, since you have to make copies of all
needed files such as the mail program, "sendmail", mailbox for
incoming mail, spooling areas and on and on ...

Another more modest method would be to set up a bbs program (most of them
set up mail access for you).  There are even decent free bbs programs
(the name "eagles" comes to mind) which will set up "chroot" areas for you.

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Larry

Of course, if they get their own copies of the software, that sort of
gets around it.  How smart are the users?

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