[NTLUG:Discuss] deisable email

[Chris Cox]

Carroll E. McCarroll wrote:
> Does anyone know an easy way to disable a users email account without 
> disabling their login and or Samba account?

Change the permissions on their /var/mail/<username> file.
You might even consider linking it to /dev/null.

> 
> Or is their a way to disablle a regular account without disabling a Samba 
> account?

You can disable a regular account by doing a password lock on it and
changing the login shell to something like /bin/false.

# passwd -l <username>
# usermod -s /bin/false <username>

This assumes that you are authenticating the user password via
a smbpasswd file or directly to a Windows password server (a
domain controller perhaps?).