Re: [webmin-l] Vacation Message - (Sort of Urgent)

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 10:10, paddy wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:01:46AM -0500, Vernon Webb wrote:
> > I guess my point here is that I am using Webmin and VirtualMin exclusively on my 
> > system and I need to setup vacation messages for people. What is the best way to do this.
> > 
>   
> 
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 09:33:36AM +1100, Jamie Cameron wrote:
> > 
> > That description above is correct - if you want a user to be able to
> > have programs in his .forward file (like the vacation program), he has
> > to have a shell that is listed in the /etc/shells file. For Virtualmin
> > users, this is typically /dev/null by default .. 
> >  
> 
> FWIW on the raq4 they did:
> 
>   # grep test-user /etc/mail/*
>   aliases:test-user:     "|/usr/local/sbin/vacation.pl /var/vacation/test-user.msg tes...@ex...", \test-user
>   virtusertable:tes...@ex...       test-user
>   
> with 
> 
>   # grep atest-user /etc/passwd
>   atest-user:x:335:100:test-user:/home/sites/site99/users/test-user:/bin/badsh
> 
> and 
> 
>   # cat /etc/shells
>   /bin/bash
>   /bin/sh
>   /bin/bash2
>   /bin/tcsh
>   /bin/csh
>   /bin/badsh
> 
> and
> 
>   # ls -l /bin/badsh
>   -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        13217 Dec  5  2001 /bin/badsh
>   [root mail]# file /bin/badsh
>   /bin/badsh: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.0.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
>   [root mail]# /bin/badsh
>   
>   ************************* Access Denied *************************
>   *                                                               *
>   * Sorry, you do not have telnet/shell access to this Cobalt     *
>   * server.                                                       *
>   *                                                               *
>   *****************************************************************
> 
> So the key difference is that /bin/badsh is in /etc/shells ?
> Not sure if that's a good idea though ...

It won't cause any problems ...
Also, if the autoresponder is set up in /etc/aliases rather than
.forward, the contents of /etc/shells doesn't matter.

 - Jamie