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niyogi
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Joined: 10 Apr 2002
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Location: Austin, TX

Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2002 5:25 pm Post subject:

how do you disable login privileges?

Nitro
Bodhisattva

Joined: 08 Apr 2002
Posts: 661
Location: San Francisco

Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2002 6:05 pm Post subject:

If you do

Code:

passwd -l <username>

The account wil become locked, the encrypted password will be prefixed by a '!' and will never match any hash. And to unlock it use

Code:

passwd -u <username>

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gschneider
Tux's lil' helper

Joined: 10 Apr 2002
Posts: 81
Location: Rostock, Germany

Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2002 6:45 pm Post subject:

niyogi wrote:

how do you disable login privileges?

if you want to disable console login only (e.g. for ftp users) you can set the users' shell to /bin/false

Code:

usermod -s /bin/false username

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