Re: [LUG] Adding new email users

[Kai Hendry <hendry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 09:44:41 +0100, Simon Waters wrote:
> Exim and Procmail.... Hmm I like Postfix, but I don't think the MTA will
> make much difference, it is the easy bit.

Yes. Postfix is nice, but after SASL relaying broke in the 2.0 or
whatever I lost respect for the program.

> 150 users - /etc/passwd and a false shell as Kai says unless they have
> authentication details on another system!? If you want to script
> useradd, google as there are Perl snippets around to generate the
> encrypted passwords for you (with a suitably random salt etc) which is
> usually where it falls down.

What about adduser --shell /bin/false ?

If you want a GUI, Skolelinux has a web one for all administration
duties.

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