Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 10:55:43 -0800 (PST) From: Robert Du Gaue <rdugaue@calweb.com> To: "Stephen A. Derdau" <sderdau@xtdl.com> Cc: David Hawkins <dhawk@river.org>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to lock out a nonpaying user? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980110105410.4999F-100000@web2.calweb.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980110101300.25637A-100000@user.xtdl.com>
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> Try changing their password. When they want to reactivate ask them > what they want for a password or what their password was. Better yet. We add the word 'SUSPEND' as part of their password string. This way we can easily grep and see who is suspended, the string changes their PW encryption so they can't login and when we want to unsuspend them we remove the string and their PW is what is was before. > > > Stephen A. Derdau > XTDL inc > 10 Chestnut Dr. Bedford, NH 03110 > 603 4714700 "If it wasn't for something I would have nothing!:)" > > > 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 > > > > Suggestions? > > > > later, david > > -- > > David Hawkins -- dhawk@river.org http://www.river.org > > Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderments, > > and are always answering questions when the chief relish of life is to > > go on asking them. -- Frank Moore Colby > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Du Gaue - rdugaue@calweb.com http://www.calweb.com President, CalWeb Internet Services Inc. (916) 641-9320 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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