[KLUG Members] pine login

[Adam Williams]

If your mail server supports delegation or ACLs (Courier, Cyrus, etc...) 
you can just give the admin such privilages.  If your using UW then you 
have to go about it the hard way that you describe.

>> Ah, I had thought of that.  But what if the user has /bin/false as his 
>> shell?  In other words, what if the user has no remote login 
>> capabilities (other than pop3)?

Maybe "su {username} -c "/usr/bin/pine"" ?

>If your root then you could change that. ;-)

Kinda messy though.