"Federico Leva (Nemo)" nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Would .htaccess work also for expired accounts then, and could operators/roots do something about them? We still have tons of users entering, say, interiot and soxred's tools and getting slightly unhelpful results.
The "User account expired" messages are generated by https://svn.toolserver.org/svnroot/puppet/trunk/puppet/modules/webserver/fil... which replaces the bottom of /etc/htaccess. It's certainly possible to exempt some user accounts and add special redi- rects for them. The bigger problem for a move of abandoned tools to /anywhere/ is however, as Magnus said, if the source code is properly licensed. soxred93 for example has set a default license of MIT (but http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/ looks pretty empty), while interiot has no default license, but /home/interiot/public_html/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate de- clares itself as "[[Public domain]]". Just redirecting to a working tool should pose no problems, though.
Tim