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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] locking user accounts doesn't really lock them.
From: Kurt Lieber <klieber () gentoo ! org>
Date: 2003-10-31 22:18:42
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On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 05:01:17PM -0500 or thereabouts, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> Ideally, there is one simple way of *completely* locking out a user from a
> machine, short of deleting their entry in /etc/(passwd|shadow)
As was just pointed out to me on irc, expiring the account, as opposed to
locking the password, will do what I want. So:
usermod -e 0000-00-00 <user>
I still think SSH should find a way to check/respect the ! character in
passwd fields, but for now, I can at least use this as a workaround.
--kurt
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