[LUG] Adding new email users

["Jeremy Pearson" <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All;

Only my second ever post, so please bear with my ignorance of linux matters.

I'm in the process of replacing our ailing school mail server (w2k/mailtraq)
with a shiny new installation of
Debian3/Exim/UW-IMAP/qpopper/procmail/squirrelmail, and having pretty much
started from scratch I'm in the final testing stages with it before rolling
the system out during the summer holidays, learning all about Linux along
the way.

My question is: when I come to add user accounts for the 150+ mail users, do
I need to create a standard login account for each person, or is there a
neater (and more secure) way? Each user needs only SMTP, POP3 and webmail
access to this machine, and surely not a login account too?

I just don't want the kids trying to SSH in when I'm not looking.

Cheers;
Jeremy

PS: Regarding interesting locations for future meetings - I'd be happy to
host a meeting over here on the Scillies. There's not a huge amount of Linux
going on over here just yet, but a meet-up/convention might just get the
chattering classes over here interested..

--
Jeremy Pearson
ICT Technician
FIve Islands School, St Marys, Isles of Scilly, TR21 0JY
Tel: 01720 422929 Fax: 01720 422969


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