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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