Re: Disabling users after a period of time

2014-05-03 Thread Renich Bon Ciric
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: There are a lot of possibilities, but here is one way. Use that flag suggested, and also run a nightly cron job which looks at the account experiation date field in /etc/shadow (it's the next-to-last one -- see

Disabling users after a period of time

2014-05-02 Thread Renich Bon Ciric
Hello, Fedudes! So this is the situation: I have a server called El Servidor de la Comunidad or The Community Server. This servers provides old fashioned hosting to GNU Linux and Fedora enthusiasts. Everybody has a shell and their websites are all in /srv/www; owned by them and their group;

Re: Disabling users after a period of time

2014-05-02 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 02 May 2014, Renich Bon Ciric sent: since we're not an ISP; just a bunch o' loosers, we do not have an idea of when a user needs to renew the yearly subscription, which is $100. Sounds like you need some kind of diary program. When someone pays their dues, you record

Re: Disabling users after a period of time

2014-05-02 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 05:38:03AM -0500, Renich Bon Ciric wrote: Anyway, I thought of using usermod -e; which is the expire flag. But this will not disable their websites along with the user, since the files are out of their home dir; which we will never support. There are a lot of