Used to be the recommended way of removing a user from your system was to change the username (user becomes _user for example). That way you can retain all the privs, etc in case you want to grant the account to someone else later (like the person's replacement in a work environment).
Ric On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > > Hi there, > > I'd like to expire an user, so he is no longer able to login to a > machine using ssh. How can you acomplish this? I would like to keep the > user, and all its information (including password, public/private > keys...) so I can reactivate it later. > > Regards, > Jose > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
