blocking logins at server

[Schmehl, Paul L]

Why not disable his account?  That will get his attention, and then you
can educate him and have him reset the check-mail interval in their
client.  We do this regularly.  You'd be amazed how fast someone that
you can never get ahold off will show up in your office when their
account doesn't work and only you can fix it. :-)

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
TCS Department Coordinator
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lawrence Greenfield [mailto:leg+ at andrew.cmu.edu] 
> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 4:01 PM
> To: Info-Cyrus; twk at ncsu.edu
> Subject: Re: blocking logins at server
> 
> 
>    Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:55:03 -0500
>    From: twk <twk at ncsu.edu>
> 
>    We are running both 1.5.x and 2.1.x versions of Cyrus. I have a
>    $#%$^#$%^ user that has his email client set to check every folder
>    ever few seconds. I can't remove him from the password file, as we
>    use Kerberos for authentication. I don't want to disable him in
>    kerberos, just block his logins to the server. Is there any
>    relatively straightforward way to do this?
> 
> As you might've suspected, we've never implemented anything 
> to do this. I've been down on the idea of adding an extra 
> syscall every time through the cmdloop() just to add this 
> functionality.
> 
> Larry
> 
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