Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:26:56 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Nash <nash@mcs.net> To: totii@est.is Cc: dhawk@river.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to lock out a nonpaying user? Message-ID: <199801101726.LAA07557@nash.pr.mcs.net> In-Reply-To: <34B79D84.E8A9F2A2@est.is>
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On 10 Jan, Žoršur Ivarsson wrote: > 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. If they have a friend on the same system with an unlocked account, they can bypass the .cshrc and .profile with 'su -m'. >> 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. Note that both rsh and ssh can be setup to allow people in without checking the password field. Alexhome | help
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