Andrei Popescu wrote the following on 24.07.2008 18:28
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<--------------- man 1 passwd -------------
-l, --lock
Lock the named account. This option disables an account by changing
the password to a value which matches no possible encrypted value,
and by setting the account expiry field to 1.
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> Interesting, the manpage passwd(1) says that 'passwd -l' should also set
> account expiry to 1, but it doesn't. Either passwd or the manpage is
> wrong, so I think this should be reported against the package passwd.
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
well here it does. Tested with both Debian lenny and Ubuntu hardy.
Which version do you use?
If you have a locked account without that expiry and use either of the above
just 'lock' that account again and then take a look at /etc/shadow.
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bye Thilo
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