On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 14:02, Aseem Asthana wrote:
> * mr_bksharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-04 10:57 PST]:
> > Which configuration file contains the flag/setting to enable/disable any
> > a/c permanently?
>
> just set the shell in /etc/passwd to be /bin/true or /bin/false and the
> user will not be able to login.
Denying a login shell != disabling an account. The user would still be
able to auth with any of the services on the machine.
I usually prepend "!!" in the password field in /etc/shadow
another one, an excerpt from man passwd -
--------------
-l This option is used to lock the specified account and it is
available to root only. The locking is performed by rendering
the encrypted password into an invalid string (by prefixing the
encrypted string with an !).
--------------
use as
# passwd <username> -l
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VaibhaV
http://vsharma.net
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