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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: user database
Date: 13 Feb 1996 02:37:06 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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Message-ID: <4fotgi$art@park.uvsc.edu>
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peter@hack.byron.apana.org.au (Peter Connerty) wrote:
]
] Hi Everyone, I am fast becoming one of the great unix haters around....
]
] I'm running FreeBSD Version 2.0.5 I would like to know is unix capable
] of controling time users have and membership details, dos does it nicly
] can't say i've seen anything good like this for unix.
]
] I run a BBS and we have a user database but I can't find anything in unix,
]
] PLEASE someone help!
man sa
If you mean *restrict* their usage, there are programs in any of
the comp.unix.sources archives which will do this for you.
There is some discussion of modifying the "class" fields to
conform to recent BSDI usage. If you want to code this up
rather than using the comp.unix.sources programs, feel free.
I still can't figure out your claims about "DOS does this nicely";
I think you must be running seperate programs, like NetWare, which
are not part of DOS (like the archives programs are not technically
part of UNIX or UNIX-clonce OS's).
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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