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Date:      Sun, 11 Jan 1998 09:45:36 +1000
From:      Rob Secombe <robseco@wizard.teksupport.net.au>
To:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to lock out a nonpaying user?
Message-ID:  <199801102245.JAA03949@moat.teksupport.net.au>

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At 06:11 10-01-98 -0800, you 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?
>

We suspend accounts by prepending the user's password with an '*' followed
by the initials of the person that did it. Our accounting system also does
this once a prepaid facility has beed exhausted.

eg. in the case of md5 1$1........ gets set to *rs1$1..........

Rob.





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