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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: BSDI User Accounts Date: 12 Jun 1996 13:51:20 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4pmi0o$air@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <31B3180D.4243@bekkers.com.au> <4pkv0r$civ@mercury.galstar.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E jmccorm@galstar.com (Josh McCormick) wrote: > Here is a simple C program called "acct_disabled" to compile: > > main() { > char *a; > printf ("\n\nYour account has been disabled due to system abuse.\n"); > printf ("\nPress [ENTER] to disconnect.\n\n"); > read(0,a,1); > exit(0); > } It will most likely fail with a segmentation violation. :) If you don't wanna use my simple shell hack (see another followup in this thread), do it at least right: main() { char a; printf ("\n\nYour account has been disabled due to system abuse.\n"); printf ("\nPress [ENTER] to disconnect.\n\n"); read(0,&a,1); exit(0); } -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j