topic Re: Enabling and Disabling for a specific user on HP-UX 11.11 in Operating System - HP-UX

Enabling and Disabling for a specific user on HP-UX 11.11

KPS — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:28:55 GMT

Hi,

I was curious how you can prevent and enable direct logins using ssh and telnet. Is it the same method for both?

Example:) I have an Application user that i do not want people logging on directly to a system as this user...

Thanks,
KPS

Re: Enabling and Disabling for a specific user on HP-UX 11.11

Simon Hargrave — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:30:04 GMT

The easiest way is to set the users shell to /usr/bin/false.

Change this in /etc/passwd (carefully).

Re: Enabling and Disabling for a specific user on HP-UX 11.11

Pete Randall — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:32:54 GMT

You can also replace the password field in /etc/passwd with an asterisk.

Pete

Re: Enabling and Disabling for a specific user on HP-UX 11.11

Pedro Cirne — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:33:29 GMT

Hi,

You may:

#passwd -l

This will lock the user account.

Check:

#man passwd

for details.

Enjoy :)

Pedro

Re: Enabling and Disabling for a specific user on HP-UX 11.11

Alan Meyer_4 — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:34:23 GMT

There is also a deactivate user function within SAM.

Re: Enabling and Disabling for a specific user on HP-UX 11.11

Matthew Ghofrani — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:07:14 GMT

If you wanted to check the passwd first (to see if it was legit or not) you could set up a fake .profile. That also enables you to send particular message to the users and then log them out.
The above keeps the user in passwd file without * or /usr/bin/false

Matthew Ghofrani
From Boston

Re: Enabling and Disabling for a specific user on HP-UX 11.11

KPS — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:12:00 GMT