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Date:      Sat, 10 Jan 1998 10:01:19 -0500 (EST)
From:      Dylan Northrup <northrup@nwe.ufl.edu>
To:        David Hawkins <dhawk@river.org>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to lock out a nonpaying user?
Message-ID:  <Pine.A41.3.96.980110100028.43310C-100000@ronell.nwe.ufl.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199801101411.GAA17813@ohio.river.org>

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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 <*>

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"You're always scared.  It's part of the job."
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