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Managing sendmail Services in Oracle® Solaris 11.3

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Updated: April 2020
 
 

Assigning Shell Access for .forward Permission

The /etc/shells file is not included in the standard release. You must add the file if users are to be allowed to use .forward files to forward mail to a program or to a file. You can create the file manually by using grep to identify all of the shells that are listed in your password file. You can then type the shells into the file. However, the following procedure uses a script that can be downloaded, which is easier to use.