Re: openssh ignores locked account using public key authentication

[Lonnie Olson]

On Oct 4, 2005, at 1:45 PM, Corey Edwards wrote:

The problem there is that now their UID is gone so files owned by that

re-using that UID.

user won't show an owner, just a number. And you have the possibility of

Anyone else have some more elegant ideas for user management?

--lonnie

Yup, that is one of the drawbacks of my previous idea. That is why I suggest using some other tool to manage user accounts, and have that tool export the data to LDAP or passwd files. Currently I have a billing system (a bunch of CLI scripts w/ a MySQL backend) to manage my accounts. The scripts add accounts to both locations, and suspension just removes the passwd entry.

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