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
