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[pwh at bradley.UUCP]

ijk at cbnewsh.att.com writes:
>> In article <979 at sixhub.UUCP> davidsen at sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>  >  I want to enable login to a certain userid only during certain times.
>  >Assume that cron can run a program to enable or disable, and that I can
>  >do this as root if need be. Given that, is there an elegant way to
>  >enable a login only during certain times, and to do so in a way which
>  >doesn't lead to possible timing problems or other system uglyness, such
>  >as editing the password file directly?
>I would consider making the permissions of the user's home directory
>as 000 - this should prevent the user from logging in; if not, then
>mv the dir to a holding area.  If you don't have a home directory, then
>you can't log in, at least on all the systems I've worked with.
>[All non-BSD, but I imagine that they should be the same].

This may help for limiting when they log on, but if you don't want them to
be on after a certain point, it doesn't address the issue of how to get rid
of them.  Users I know would just log in when they were allowed to and stay
on forever.