IMAP account without shell access 2

[venkman]

I'd like to make a mail account available through IMAP and POP, but not allow the user shell access through SSH. How do I go about doing this? Also is there a way to do this if the account was already created with shell access? i.e. can I revoke shell access without deleting the account?

-Venkman

 

[fluid11]

Change the users shell to /bin/false.

usermod -s /bin/false username


ChrisP

 

[venkman]

thanks that did it,
Venkman

 

[RhythmAce]

/sbin/nologin is much much better

 

[venkman]

you're right.