Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 10:23:26 -0500 From: Norman C Rice <nrice@emu.sourcee.com> To: David Hawkins <dhawk@river.org> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to lock out a nonpaying user? Message-ID: <19980110102326.26066@emu.sourcee.com> In-Reply-To: <199801101411.GAA17813@ohio.river.org>; from David Hawkins on Sat, Jan 10, 1998 at 06:11:10AM -0800 References: <199801101411.GAA17813@ohio.river.org>
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On Sat, Jan 10, 1998 at 06:11:10AM -0800, David Hawkins wrote: > How do you lock out a person for nonpay so that it's relatively > easy to reactivate their account later? I tried replacing their > respective .cshrc and .profile with exec /bin/cat goaway.message > but one has gotten around that. I also add them to /etc/ftpusers > so they can't use delete in ftp to remove the .cshrc > > Suggestions? > > later, david > -- > David Hawkins -- dhawk@river.org http://www.river.org > Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderments, > and are always answering questions when the chief relish of life is to > go on asking them. -- Frank Moore Colby I use `vipw' to place an asterisk (*) in the first character of their password field. deadbeat:*$1$B0i0:1008:69::0:0:Slow Pay:/home/spay:/bin/csh ^ You could use vipw to change their login program to /usr/bin/false or /nonexistent. deadbeat:$1$B0i0:1008:69::0:0:Slow Pay:/home/spay:/nonexistent ^^^^^^^^^^^^ -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr.
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