Re: Passwd: encrypted pw entry

[dpk <dpk@egr.msu.edu>]

Sorry if someone already answered this, my inbox is chaos right now...

I run shadow passwd's so I:

1.  type 'shadowconfig off'
2.  type 'vi /etc/passwd' as root.  I replace the users password with a
    single '*'.  This is what it will look like:
	username:*:1000:100:[snip]
3.  quit/save
4.  type 'shadowconfig on'

Hope this works for you.

Dennis

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On Wed, 20 Aug 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote:

> 
> How can I disable an /etc/passwd entry. Isn't there something I can place
> in the encrypted-pw section of /etc/passwd to disable the account ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Matthew
> 
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