You said you "entered" into those files. Did you vi(1) them mnaually?
Did you rebuild the database afterward? When you finger the user, what
does the shell show up as? Use either vipw(8) as root, to do this, or
use chfn(1) as the user.
~BAS
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, morla wrote:
hello all,
i just made up a second account on my box and wanted to prevent the old one
from loging into it, due i want to keep it for email retrival.
when i enter something like
morla:*:1000:1000:morla:/home/morla:/sbin/nologin
into /etc/passwd and a similary entry into /etc/master.passwd should'nt this
keep me out???
please be carefull with me, i am realtily new to bsd...
thanks all morla
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-lava
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