Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 10:55:36 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Fisher <mfisher@harborcom.net> To: David Hawkins <dhawk@river.org> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to lock out a nonpaying user? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980110105409.14536C-100000@d117-h041.rh.rit.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
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
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