On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Prince Ctrl wrote: [ When administering a Red Hat 6.0 server and locking users with the [ 'passwd -l <user>' command, and then unlocking a user with the 'passwd [ -u <user>' command, a control character is added to the end of a [ users' encrypted password in the form of a "^Q" in the shadowed passwd [ file. The "usermod" program, a part of shadow-utils that comes with RedHat 6.0 has a similar feature and does NOT has this "^Q" problem when unlocking. To lock an account: usermod -L username To unlock an account: usermod -U username [ OS affected/tested: Red Hat 6.0 Too bad, I just upgraded the last RH 5.2 box to 6.0 today! --- M S Anam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Annex Group, Bangladesh We hack to learn! Those who can't write, write manuals.
