Hi, guys. I wanted to disable a user account under OpenBSD 4.9, and Google led me here:
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#AddDelUser <quote>Removing users To remove users with the user(8) hierarchy of commands, you will use userdel(8). This is a very simple, yet usable command. To remove the user created in the last example, simply: # userdel -r testuser Notice the -r option, which must be specified if you want the users home directory to be deleted as well. Alternatively, you can specify -p and not -r and this will lock the user's account, but not remove any information.</unquote> That last sentence - sounds exactly like what I need - so I try it: # userdel -p testuser usage: userdel -D [-p preserve-value] userdel [-prv] user The man page suggests that it should work as well. Looks like it has been raised before: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01370.html No patches because I'm not exactly sure what the "right" answer(s) are. Am I just doing it wrong? Thanks.
