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| author | Camiel Dobbelaar <camield@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2001-09-24 19:08:02 +0000 |
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| committer | Camiel Dobbelaar <camield@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2001-09-24 19:08:02 +0000 |
| commit | 27ffd0a1db09ffef5299597841408e65e9d4e7ef (patch) | |
| tree | 3c9b6d841ca74a3a99a611856e80acf66474471b /usr.sbin/popa3d/popa3d.8 | |
| parent | b246ea8d13ccbcb566a58af840bfa92b5e4eafaf (diff) | |
Do not document stuff that will be automatic.
From deraadt@
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/popa3d/popa3d.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/popa3d/popa3d.8 | 35 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/popa3d/popa3d.8 b/usr.sbin/popa3d/popa3d.8 index 3806320ce02..5f3b208f67d 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/popa3d/popa3d.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/popa3d/popa3d.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: popa3d.8,v 1.3 2001/09/21 20:37:39 camield Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: popa3d.8,v 1.4 2001/09/24 19:08:01 camield Exp $ .Dd August 15, 2001 .Dt POPA3D 8 .Os @@ -68,28 +68,11 @@ for TCP-wrappers access control: .Pp .Pa pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/tcpd /usr/sbin/popa3d .Pp -Send SIGHUP to the -.Xr inetd 8 -daemon to make the changes effective. -.Pp -After starting the daemon, either stand-alone or through -.Xr inetd 8 , -all valid users can access their mailbox through the POP3 service. -This requires the username to be in the password database and the -password to not be empty. Authentication for super-users like root -will always fail, even if the password is correct. -.Sh PREREQUISITES -Before using -.Nm -for the first time, the following steps have to be carried out as root: -.Bl -enum -.It -groupadd popa3d -.It -useradd -c 'POP3 server' -d /nonexistent -g popa3d -s /sbin/nologin popa3d -.It -mkdir -m 755 /usr/share/empty -.El +For access to a mailbox through the POP3 service, the username must +be in the password database and the password field must not be +empty. +Authentication for super-users like root will always fail, even if the +password is correct. .Sh COMMANDS A normal POP3 session progresses through three states: authorization, transaction and update. @@ -135,9 +118,9 @@ User mail spools .It Pa /etc/hosts.allow, /etc/hosts.deny TCP-wrappers access controls may be defined here as described in .Xr hosts_access 5 . -Only valid if either +Valid if .Nm -is started in daemon-mode and is compiled with LIBWRAP, or if +is started in daemon-mode, or if .Nm is running through .Xr inetd 8 @@ -146,7 +129,7 @@ and is used in combination with .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr inetd 8 , -.Xr sendmail 8 . +.Xr sendmail 8 .Pp Official Internet Protocol Standard .%T STD 53 , |