From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jan 10 07:01:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA07754 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 07:01:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from kubrick.nwe.ufl.edu (kubrick.nwe.ufl.edu [128.227.243.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA07726 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 07:01:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from northrup@nwe.ufl.edu) Received: from ronell.nwe.ufl.edu (ronell.nwe.ufl.edu [128.227.243.237]) by kubrick.nwe.ufl.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA20489; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 09:58:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from northrup@nwe.ufl.edu) Received: from localhost (northrup@localhost) by ronell.nwe.ufl.edu (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA14418; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 10:01:20 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: ronell.nwe.ufl.edu: northrup owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 10:01:19 -0500 (EST) From: Dylan Northrup To: David Hawkins cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to lock out a nonpaying user? In-Reply-To: <199801101411.GAA17813@ohio.river.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, 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? Give them an invalid shell (i.e. one that doesn't work and isn't listed in /etc/shells). /bin/true works well but I'm always a fan of /usr/games/fortune with Babylon 5 quotes :-) -- Dylan Northrup <*> northrup@nwe.ufl.edu <*> http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~northrup <*> --------------- Random B5 Quote "You're always scared. It's part of the job." -- Lt. Keffer, "GROPOS"