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

[KPS]

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

[Simon Hargrave · Accepted solution]

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

Change this in /etc/passwd (carefully).

[Pete Randall]

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


Pete

[Pedro Cirne]

Hi,

You may:

#passwd -l

This will lock the user account.

Check:

#man passwd

for details.

Enjoy :)

Pedro

[Alan Meyer_4]

There is also a deactivate user function within SAM.

[Matthew Ghofrani]

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

[KPS]

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