[juneau-lug] Re: lock user account with a warning

The first thing that pops to mind is write your own "shell" and do something
like this:
#!/bin/sh
echo "Your account is locked until you clean your room"
logout

stash that in /bin/custom_shell
make it executable (and w/ -rwxr-xr-x permissions)

Then just
sudo chsh /bin/custom_shell username

I'm sure there are probably buffer overflow/etc type issues if this was a
real production type issue, but based on the message, I'm guessing that
it'll do..  I haven't tested the above, so perhaps the chsh command is a
little different (I'd just edit /etc/passwd, but some folks are squeamish
about that kind of stuff..)

Matt

On 10/8/06, James Zuelow <e5z8652@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of a method to lock a user account and present a message
> or
> warning when that user attempts to log in?
>
> issuing `passwd -l user` will lock the user account out - but the system
> will
> just tell them that they typed the wrong password.
>
> What I'd like is for the system to give an arbitrary message when they
> fail -
>
> "Your account is locked until you clean your room"
>
> is the specific message I have in mind.
>
> Ideas?
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