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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI User Accounts
Date: 3 Jun 1996 11:45:04 GMT
Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden
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Jamie Bekkers <jamie@bekkers.com.au> wrote:
> I want to disable a user account, but not so they can not log in.
> But rather it would give then a message like: "Your account has been
> disabled due to system abuse" and then log them off?
#!/bin/sh
echo "Your account has been disabled due to system abuse."
mail -s "Disabled account" root <<EOF
Hi,
user ${USER} has just tried to log in, and has been told that
his account has been disabled.
Yours sincerely,
The Friendly NoLogin Script
EOF
exit 0
...put this into a script, run chmod 555 on it, and enter the pathname
of this script in the shell field for this user (best done with chsh).
--
J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j