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Lucas Odemba

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May 20, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/20/99
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Hellos,

I need your help here. I have two servers running full Internet (BSDI 3.1). Now there are clients who would want only e-mail services. How would I restrict them to only this service (e-mail) within these two servers.

Regrards.

Odemba
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BHCom Staff

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May 20, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/20/99
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Hey Obemba,

Make their shell:

/usr/bin/passwd

so they can only shell in for password changes... Make
sure /usr/bin/passwd is not set as a valid ftp shell
and then they can only use mail.

John

Brian MacLennan

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May 20, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/20/99
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How does this stop the user from using their WWW browser? With this
solution you have to use an email package on the server (ie. pine) - is it
possible to have a Windows user just use email and have no browsing
capibilities?

Alan Clegg

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May 20, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/20/99
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> How does this stop the user from using their WWW browser? With this
> solution you have to use an email package on the server (ie. pine) - is it
> possible to have a Windows user just use email and have no browsing
> capibilities?

That was not specified in the initial query.

What I'd do is give the users a 'non-routed' IP address (via Radius) such
that the only thing that they could reach would be your e-mail server, and,
perhaps, a web page that said "you can't go there, buy a real account"
no-matter where they tried to go.

AlanC

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