On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 20:20 +0530, Sudarshan Soma wrote: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Chris Tyler <chris@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > > > 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 Pavan, If you're using usermod, you'll want the -L option. (Also: on this list (and other Fedora lists), please reply at the bottom of messages instead of the top -- it preserves the flow of discussion). -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