Multiple Fetchmail

Dom Latter dom at latter.org
Mon Oct 20 21:35:48 CEST 2008


On Monday 20 October 2008 16:08:09 Longman wrote:
> If I want to have fetchmail running in daemon mode for multiple users
> but don't want those users to have shell access to the box what options
> do I have available to me?

What are you *actually* trying to do here?  It may be that there is a more
appropriate tool / solution than using fetchmail.

Anyway, you can set up users to have no shell access by changing /etc/passwd
appropriately: 
http://www.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.linux.security/2002-10/5876.html
and subsequent posts.



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