Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 12:36:45 -0500 From: Norman C Rice <nrice@emu.sourcee.com> To: Jeff Lynch <jeff@mercury.jorsm.com> Cc: David Hawkins <dhawk@river.org>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to lock out a nonpaying user? Message-ID: <19980110123645.13588@emu.sourcee.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980110105453.4393A-100000@mercury.jorsm.com>; from Jeff Lynch on Sat, Jan 10, 1998 at 11:01:50AM -0600 References: <19980110102326.26066@emu.sourcee.com> <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980110105453.4393A-100000@mercury.jorsm.com>
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On Sat, Jan 10, 1998 at 11:01:50AM -0600, Jeff Lynch wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Norman C Rice wrote: > > > I use `vipw' to place an asterisk (*) in the first character of their > > password field. > > > > deadbeat:*$1$B0i0:1008:69::0:0:Slow Pay:/home/spay:/bin/csh > > ^ > > You could use vipw to change their login program to /usr/bin/false or > > /nonexistent. > > > > deadbeat:$1$B0i0:1008:69::0:0:Slow Pay:/home/spay:/nonexistent > > We do something similar, but didn't trust multiple people hacking > at the password file with a text editor. After being tired of being > the bottle neck, I put a script together to do it and gave sudo > previlidges to everyone down to level1 support to activate/reavtivate > logins. It also makes it easy search for dead beats in the system > that haven't paid and eventually clear them out. > > This also provides additional protection from POP mail, the deadbeats > can't continue to use your mail server from another provider, futher > pressing the issue of resolving the non-paynment issue. > > ========================================================================= > Jeffrey A. Lynch, President JORSM Internet > email: jeff@jorsm.com Northwest Indiana's Full-Service Provider > Voice: (219)322-2180 927 Sheffield Avenue, Dyer, IN 46311 > Autoresponse: info@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com Sounds very interesting.... I know that RedHat Linux has a similar feature accessible from their control-panel. Would you consider publishing your script to simplify this task for other providers? -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr.
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