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Date:      Wed, 6 Apr 2005 09:36:47 -0400
From:      David Robillard <david.robillard@notarius.com>
To:        Bob Ababurko <ababurko@adelphia.net>
Cc:        Ean Kingston <ean@hedron.org>
Subject:   Re: suspending login
Message-ID:  <20050406133647.GA50102@paris.notarius.lan>

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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?

-- 
David Robillard
UNIX systems administrator
david.robillard@notarius.com

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