[techtalk] Hi.I'm new.Postfix/mail server questions...

[Mary Gardiner]

On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 04:44:33PM -0700, Kai MacTane wrote:
> Well, I know pathetically little C -- basically, enough to write "Hello, 
> World!" -- but then again, that's enough to write a program the prints out 
> "Your account has been suspended." You could write two or three canned 
> messages like this, each in a different executable, and name them 
> "suspended-for-spamming", "suspended-for-cracking", and whatever else was 
> appropriate, and have each one be a potential login shell.
> 
> (Probably the "real C programmer" way to do it would be to have just one 
> script, with a variety of canned messages, that checked what name it had 
> been invoked under and displayed the appropriate message. Then make all 
> those names be symlinks to the one script. But I have no clue how to do 
> that in C.)

But the problem was that it might, for instance, buffer overrun, or not catch
SIGINT correctly, which requires more C knowledge than:

printf("Sorry, you don't live here no more.");

Mary.

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