Re: suspending login

2005-04-07 Thread Eric McCoy
Ean Kingston wrote: If you change the password entry then, when you want to enable the user again, the user has to enter a new password. This way, the user keeps his/her old password. Note, the question asked for suspend, not remove. I read suspend as implying that the account may be used again.

Re: suspending login

2005-04-07 Thread Ean Kingston
Ean Kingston wrote: If you change the password entry then, when you want to enable the user again, the user has to enter a new password. This way, the user keeps his/her old password. Note, the question asked for suspend, not remove. I read suspend as implying that the account may be used

Re: suspending login

2005-04-06 Thread Jason Stewart
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 18:50 -0400, Ean Kingston wrote: On April 5, 2005 06:42 pm, Bob Ababurko wrote: Hello all- I am trying to figure out how to suspend a login for a user. Do I have to do this with password aging or is there an easier(read brute force) way to disallow a user from

Re: suspending login

2005-04-06 Thread David Robillard
What you need is nologin(5). Check nologin(5) and nologin(8) man pages. As the nologin(8) man page says: To disable all logins, investigate nologin(5) David On April 5, 2005 06:42 pm, Bob Ababurko wrote: Hello all- I am trying to figure out how to suspend a login for a user. Do I have

Re: suspending login

2005-04-06 Thread Ean Kingston
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 18:50 -0400, Ean Kingston wrote: On April 5, 2005 06:42 pm, Bob Ababurko wrote: Hello all- I am trying to figure out how to suspend a login for a user. Do I have to do this with password aging or is there an easier(read brute force) way to disallow a user from

suspending login

2005-04-05 Thread Bob Ababurko
Hello all- I am trying to figure out how to suspend a login for a user. Do I have to do this with password aging or is there an easier(read brute force) way to disallow a user from logging in? -thanks, Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: suspending login

2005-04-05 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 17:42, Bob Ababurko wrote: Hello all- I am trying to figure out how to suspend a login for a user. Do I have to do this with password aging or is there an easier(read brute force) way to disallow a user from logging in? -thanks, Bob

Re: suspending login

2005-04-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 18:42:08 -0400 Bob Ababurko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I am trying to figure out how to suspend a login for a user. Do I have to do this with password aging or is there an easier(read brute force) way to disallow a user from logging in? do you want to directly

Re: suspending login

2005-04-05 Thread Ean Kingston
On April 5, 2005 06:42 pm, Bob Ababurko wrote: Hello all- I am trying to figure out how to suspend a login for a user. Do I have to do this with password aging or is there an easier(read brute force) way to disallow a user from logging in? the safest way is to set the shell to /sbin/nologin

Re: suspending login

2005-04-05 Thread Bob Ababurko
Ean Kingston wrote: On April 5, 2005 06:42 pm, Bob Ababurko wrote: Hello all- I am trying to figure out how to suspend a login for a user. Do I have to do this with password aging or is there an easier(read brute force) way to disallow a user from logging in? the safest way is to set the shell