Re: [LUG] Adding new email users

[Mark Evans <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeremy Pearson wrote:
> 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

Not that big a number of users.

> 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

Hopefully you mean IMAP, rather than POP3.

> 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.

Why not? If you don't want them to be able to login then set the shell 
to /bin/false

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