[aclug-L] Re: disable login

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This will not prevent somebody from logging in via passwordless
authentication scheme such as rhosts or ssh+key.

-- John

Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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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