Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 16:10:44 +0000 From: "Þorður Ivarsson" <totii@est.is> To: David Hawkins <dhawk@river.org> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to lock out a nonpaying user? Message-ID: <34B79D84.E8A9F2A2@est.is> References: <199801101411.GAA17813@ohio.river.org>
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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? You can disable the user with changeing password field of his through 'vipw', we add '$' in front of the password field to see if user is enabled or disabled. -- Þórður Ívarsson Thordur Ivarsson Rafeindavirki Electronic technician Norðurgötu 30 Nordurgotu 30 Box 309 Box 309 602 Akureyri 602 Akureyri Ísland Iceland --------------------------------------------- FreeBSD has good features, Some others are full of unwanted features! ---------------------------------------------
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