Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 13:59:19 -0500 From: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net> To: David Hawkins <dhawk@river.org> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to lock out a nonpaying user? Message-ID: <19980110135919.13041@rtfm.net> In-Reply-To: <199801101411.GAA17813@ohio.river.org>; from David Hawkins on Sat, Jan 10, 1998 at 06:11:10AM -0800 References: <199801101411.GAA17813@ohio.river.org>
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On Sat, Jan 10, 1998 at 06:11:10AM -0800, 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 Run /usr/sbin/vipw, and put a * character in front of their encrypted password field. The reason everyone uses * for this purpose is that the hash never generates a * in the hashed password string--thus the user will not be able to log in. If you just add it to the password instead of replacing, you can easily re-enable the account by removing one character. -- ________________ _______________________________ / Nathan Dorfman V PGP: finger nathan@rtfm.net / / nathan@rtfm.net | http://www.rtfm.net /
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