[aclug-L] Re: disable login

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You'll have a line that looks like this for each user:

nobody:lj3//adjk34j:65534:65534:nobody:/home:/bin/sh

If you're not using shadowed passwords, instead of the "x" between the first
and second colon, you'll see a bunch of goobledegook.  The simplest way to
disable an account is to just put a * in this field.  If you want to keep it
only temporarily disabled, add a * in front of the rest of this text:

nobody:*:65534:65534:nobody:/home:/bin/sh

This field refers to the password--by putting a * there, you make the
password undecypherable.  If you're using shadowed passwords, you may need
to edit /etc/shadow instead of /etc/passwd


On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 04:44:57PM -0600, Sanjay Dhar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Do you know what I need to change in /etc/passwd so that a user's login
> could be disabled temporarily. I have a situation where I need to lock out
> a user till a few issues are resolved with my server.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sanjay
> 
> 
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