disable/enable user account

[Ricky B. Nino]

Hi,

How can I disable then enable specific user account/s?

regards...

[Michael Tully]

On a trusted system:

# /usr/lbin/modprpw -k

If not trusted, you can use:

# passwd -l

[Ron Cornwell]

The easiest way I have found is to change their shell in /etc/passwd to /usr/bin/false. This will prevent them from logging in.

[T G Manikandan · Accepted solution]

lock the user

#passwd -l

unlock
#passwd

[Christian Gebhardt]

Hi

deactivate:
/usr/lbin/modprpw -l -m alock=YES
activate:
/usr/lbin/getprpw -l -r -m lockout

or via SAM

Hint: If you don't know such a command you can try it with SAM and look at /var/sam/log/samlog.
for the command

Chris

[Ricky B. Nino]

Hi,

My system is NOT trusted. Thefore,

passwd -l to lock
passwd to unlock

works alright...

thanks...

[Michael Tully]

Ricky,

One further thing that I would always do and that is to make the user reset their password after logging in the first time. Using the 'passwd -f' option, the user will prompted to change their own password at the first attempt. This is good security practise.

Cheers
Michael

[Ricky B. Nino]

Hi,

Just recently learned about this... Another way to disable/enable user account.

to disable:
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/usr/sam/lbin/usermod.sam -p "*"

to enable:
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/usr/sam/lbin/usermod.sam -p ,..

hope you'll find this useful too...

Michael, thanks for the addtional info/tip.

regards...