From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jan 10 07:55:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA12238 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 07:55:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from ns2.harborcom.net (ns2.harborcom.net [206.158.4.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA12214 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 07:55:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mfisher@harborcom.net) Received: from d117-h041.rh.rit.edu (mfisher@d117-h041.rh.rit.edu [129.21.117.169]) by ns2.harborcom.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA24770; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 10:55:38 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 10:55:36 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Fisher X-Sender: mfisher@d117-h041.rh.rit.edu 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 Adding an asterisk to the beginning of their password generally seems to do the job. You'd keep receiving mail and serving web pages for them (if applicable). Then you can just remove the asterisk to let them back in. -- Mike "Science triumphs again!" -- Dr. H. M. Schey