User status in non-trusted systems

[Starrynight_1]

Hello all

Does anyone knows if one can determine by command line the state of a user (locked or not) in a non-trusted system? If so, how?

Thanks

SN

[James Beamish-White]

In a non-trusted sytem? Wierd.

I think it's just the format of the passwd entry - in sun, *LK* means locked, HP may be the same in non-trusted mode.

I.e. in answer to your command, grep username /etc/passwd

Cheers!
James

[John Poff]

Hi,

On my systems (all non-trusted), I just check for an '*' in the password field of /etc/passwd. I don't know of any commands that will report the status of an account from the command line.

JP

[Darren Prior]

Hi,

In a non-trusted system all you can go on is whether the password field of /etc/passwd contains an asterisk to show that it's locked. logins(1M) can do this with the -x option, otherwise you could write a simple script that uses awk to parse the file. See also passwd(4) for info on the file structure.

regards,

Darren.

[Michael Campbell]

SN

If you run logins -ax -l it will give you the status, PS for valid password, LK for locked and NP is for no password.

Hope This Helps

Michael