Mass deactivation of user accounts

[Renante M. Yu_1]

Hi to all,

How do I lock a certain number of users in trusted systems?

Thanks

[Sundar_7 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

1) Enter the usernames in a file - one user in a line

# cat /tmp/userlist
user1
user2
user3
..
usern
#

2) for USER in $(cat /tmp/userlist)
do
passwd -l $USER
done

Sundar

[Steven E. Protter]

passwd -l


make a list of users in a file


while read -r aa
do

passwd -l $aa
done < file

#Done

Sorry it took so long.

SEP

[Jim Mallett]

passwd is definitely the suggested command as mentioned above. Just so you have another command in your arsenal, in a trusted system you can also use modprpw.

Create a file containing the list of users (ie: /tmp/users.txt)

for UNAME in $(cat /tmp/users.txt)
/usr/lbin/modprpw -m alock=YES $UNAME
done

When (if) you want to unlock the accounts you can change the command to:
/usr/lbin/modprpw -k $UNAME

Jim

[Jim Mallett]

Sorry, forgot the "do" in the for loop. Been away too long.

[Renante M. Yu_1]

Thanks to all