Configuring Sendmail

Chris Logan chris at b40d.com
Tue Sep 14 05:15:12 UTC 2004


Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 06:01, Chris Logan wrote:
>  
>
>>Well what I want it to do is to have:
>>
>>fred at your.domain
>>jim at your.domain
>>bob at your.domain
>>
>>All have there own separate email accounts but how do I do that without creating a new linux user each time?
>>    
>>
>
>If that's what you want to do I'm afraid you'll need to create separate
>Linux accounts. Each will have their own mailbox file, and somebody
>needs to own that file, i.e. a user for that account.
>
>If you don't want the users to be able to log in to the machine, just
>create the users with /sbin/nologin as their shell (see the -s option
>for useradd).
>
>Paul.
>  
>
Ok my next question to that is how can I back all that info up, what 
files do I need to copy. So if I have a server crash or want to upgrade 
I won't have to recreate all those accounts again?





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