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Bug#621833: System users: removing them



sean finney <seanius@seanius.net> writes:

> For locking the account, I think it could be problematic if you have
> some kind of central account management system (i.e. LDAP/AD), and you
> don't want to lock it globally.

Yeah, but adduser doesn't ever do anything with central account management
systems anyway, so far as I know, so you could tell adduser to lock it and
if adduser can't find it in the local /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow, it would
just give up.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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