On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:12:35PM -0500, Alan Brown wrote:
> On Wed, 30 May 2001, Clifton Royston wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:09:36AM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote:
> > > In *theory* and in the worst case, I think that in server mode lost
> > > mail could result in some combination of circumstances, like a user
> > > reading mail with a carelessly implemented shell mail client, plus
> > > using POP at the same time, plus mail arrives during the POP session. 
> > 
> >   Ugh.
> > 
> >   I just got confirmation of this; it's no theory.  One of our tech
> > support people was using sudo + pine to try to fix a user's spool file,
> 
> passwd -l is your friend.

  Actually configure --enable-nonauth-file is your friend - that way we
can lock them out of POP but not out of dialup.

  -- Clifton

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