[wplug] passwd file

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Chris wrote:
>
> I have a lot of system users that I don't what to be able to log on locally.
> I know that I can use usermod -s /sbin/nologin username, but I don't want to
> do that for every user.  Can I just edit the passwd file manually, or are
> there more files that need to be changed?

You could do that easily with a script.

#!/bin/bash
for username in user1 user2 user3 user4 [etc...]
do
usermod -s /sbin/nologin $username
done

of course, back up your passwd file first.

-A