From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jan 10 19:15:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA00359 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 19:15:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from moat.teksupport.net.au (moat.teksupport.net.au [203.17.1.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA00352 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 19:15:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robseco@wizard.teksupport.net.au) Received: from magician.teksupport.net.au (magician.teksupport.net.au [192.168.1.2]) by moat.teksupport.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA03949 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 09:45:47 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <199801102245.JAA03949@moat.teksupport.net.au> X-Sender: robseco@moat.teksupport.net.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 09:45:36 +1000 To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: Rob Secombe Subject: Re: How to lock out a nonpaying user? Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 06:11 10-01-98 -0800, you 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? > We suspend accounts by prepending the user's password with an '*' followed by the initials of the person that did it. Our accounting system also does this once a prepaid facility has beed exhausted. eg. in the case of md5 1$1........ gets set to *rs1$1.......... Rob.