From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 3: 6:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0CAB37B401 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 03:06:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDF7043E9C for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 03:06:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 11:06:04 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 183CxD-0004tj-00; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 11:05:03 +0100 Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 11:05:03 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Bsd Neophyte Cc: Ceri Davies , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD version of Linux's "passwd -l" In-Reply-To: <20021019200153.51565.qmail@web20109.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > > this is what i pulled from the 'pw' man page about the 'lock' option. > > to me, it doesn't seem as if they do the same thing. "man pw lock" doesn't do what you think it does. It displays the man page for pw(8), then the man page for lock(1). Just a guess, jan -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Ever see something and think, "I've gotta leverage me some of that?" Odds are, you were looking at a synergy and didn't even know it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message