Thanks Chris. I got the command , usermod -p "*" user &> /dev/null Actually i want to make user with no access at any time. Best Regards, pavan On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Chris Tyler <chris@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 19:37 +0530, Sudarshan Soma wrote: >> Hi All, >> I need to add a user who will have entry in the /etc/passwd file as >> below, where the passwd field is marked as * >> >> myuser:*:12:23:guest:/:/bin/bash >> >> I need to do this by using command useradd, but i am not able to find >> easier way to do this by commands other than manually editing passwd >> file. >> >> >> The intention is to create a user with whcih login can never happen >> Please suggest > > Hi Pavan, > > First, you should in almost all cases have shadow password support > enabled, so the actual passwords will be in /etc/shadow not /etc/passwd. > > Second, useradd will by default create an account which cannot be > accessed until a password is added (typically with the passwd command). > If you need to lock an account that has a password so that it cannot be > used for login, you can use "passwd -l username"; note that this > prepends an exclamation mark to the password field (does the same thing > as your star). The opposite command is "passwd -u username", which > unlocks the account. > > -Chris > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
