Re: useradd with * in passwd field

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To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: useradd with * in passwd field
From: "Stephen Berg (Contractor)" <stephen.berg.ctr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:53:26 -0500
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Sudarshan Soma wrote:

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

You should probably use "passwd -l <username>" then. Let the passwdcommand lock the account properly.


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