topic Re: Command to disable NIS user in Operating System - HP-UX

Command to disable NIS user

TCEQ UNIX — Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:53:03 GMT

What is the command to disable NIS user from command line

Re: Command to disable NIS user

Steve Labar — Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:19:51 GMT

You could edit the /etc/passwd file at the NIS master and replace the password with an "*", the update the NIS maps using cd /var/yp;make

Good Luck.

Steve

Re: Command to disable NIS user

Anil C. Sedha — Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:27:38 GMT

We update our password file on the NIS master as

"X" in the password location.

But this happens through "itsync" .. don't know if you are aware of this or not. But you can manually also edit this.

Regards,
Anil

Re: Command to disable NIS user

A. Clay Stephenson — Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:35:17 GMT

While editing /etc/passwd on the NIS map and putting an impossible hash (like '*') in the passwd field (or writing a script to do it) is probably the best approach, a simple answer would be to do this on the NIS master:

usermod -s /usr/bin/false user1
cd /var/yp
make

This would make user1's shell /usr/bin/false and have the effect of disabling the account.