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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Keep them out!
Message-ID: <1040@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 90 04:07:37 GMT
References: <304@fryepro.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <304@fryepro.UUCP> gary@fryepro.UUCP (Gary L. Scorby) writes:
| The system I use it running SCO Xenix 2.3.2.  Is there a command
| that allows the super user to stop anyone from logging in for a
| period of time?  

  There was a thing like that in ISC SYS III (I do date myself, don't
I?) called "nonew". With SCO you can use a custom login program, either
in gettydefs or just as a replace for login, which execs login when allowed.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me