Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:09:15 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: dhawk@river.org (David Hawkins) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to lock out a nonpaying user? Message-ID: <199801102309.PAA24825@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199801101411.GAA17813@ohio.river.org> from David Hawkins at "Jan 10, 98 06:11:10 am"
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David Hawkins writes: > 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 Don't change their .cshrc or .profile.. those are personal files. Instead, using vipw(8), change their shells and/or replace their password fields with an asterisk. For example, look at the "bin" password entry: bin:*:3:7:Binaries Commands and Source,,,:/:/nonexistent -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com
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