Issue #219 has been updated by Matthew Buckett.
Nigel Kersten wrote: > In the absence of any evidence of systems where you can't lock an account by > setting the password hash to a special character, I'm closing this. (I've > used this functionality on a lot of *nixes) But doesn't locking the account (eg using passwd -l on linux) have the advantage that you can unlock the account again and you don't have to know the password? ---------------------------------------- Feature #219: user type could be used to lock account https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/219#change-96745 * Author: Redmine Admin * Status: Rejected * Priority: Low * Assignee: * Category: user * Target version: * Affected Puppet version: * Keywords: communitypatch * Branch: ---------------------------------------- User type could easely add locking capability by using: ensure => locked This will password lock the account and synonym for present+lock. This kind of users could only login with sshkey or other non-password means and be sure that it is enforced that way. This is enforced by passwd -l login ( on debian at least) pw user mod -h - -n login ( on freebsd ) regards, Ghislain. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
