su question

[Derek Broughton]

Gérard BIGOT wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>
> wrote:
>> Linda wrote:
>>
>>> I have several timeshare employees that I would like to have share the
>>> same email account but not the same login. I thought I had a solution
>>> figured out by moving the thunderbird-profile to a directory they could
>>> all access. However thunderbird ignores umask and on closing sets the
>>> inbox as user rw no group permissions.
>>
>> I'd say you're going the wrong way.  Set up an IMAP server (dovecot's
>> simple).  Create a user with no login (essentially, the shell is set
>> as /bin/false), and deliver its email to the IMAP server
>> (usually /var/mail/$USER/ or /home/$USER/Maildir/).  Have the users set
>> up any email client at all to point to the server's IMAP port,logging in
>> with the shared username/password.
> 
> That's the correct way to do it. It's the most stable way, also.

I believe so.  I'll admit, I've simplified the instructions for setting up
an IMAP server, but not by much - it really is pretty simple.
-- 
derek