Still, user preferences for mail subsystem in Web mail gateways for example
store profiling information in $HOME. Not that I complain, but change 5 users
folders by hand after you're done installing Obsidian Communication Systems
Intranet software and you'll understand my point.
Not to mention security concerns...
Mike Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I have verified on a system I work on that mail is stored in /var/spool/mail
> in a file based on the users name, and if they use POP3 to pull their mail
> that no directories or files are created in their home directory.
>
> If they telnet into their account and use pine to get their mail, obviously
> its a different case.
>
> So it "seems" in my quick testing if you are just wanting remote clients to
> pull mail with POP3 from your system you can probably get away with /tmp as
> their home directory and /bin/false as their default shell. I have no idea
> on IMAP though.
>
> Mike
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Steve Philp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 6:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [expert] Adding mailboxes
>
>
> > I don't have Sendmail any longer to check, but I don't think
> > /var/spool/mail/$USER is created until the user actually gets their
> > first piece of mail.
> >
> > --
> > Steve Philp
> > Network Administrator
> > Advance Packaging Corporation
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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