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From: David Robillard <david.robillard@notarius.com>
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What you need is nologin(5).

Check nologin(5) and nologin(8) man pages.

As the nologin(8) man page says:

To disable all logins, investigate nologin(5)

David

On April 5, 2005 06:42 pm, Bob Ababurko wrote:
> Hello all-
>
> I am trying to figure out how to suspend a login for a user.  Do I 
> have to do this with password aging or is there an easier(read brute 
> force) way to disallow a user from logging in?

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