Different ways of locking accounts

["Wei Chen" <wchenhk@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I recently found ways that can lock user accounts on the local machine, including "passwd -l" and "usermod -L".

I am wondering now what is the difference between the two commands and which one is preferred (or standard, or more widely used). Thanks.

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Wei
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