[wplug] passwd file

Mike Griffin mike at dmrnetworks.com
Fri Jul 11 13:06:19 EDT 2003


another thing to look into is to null the password. Login would be 
disabled.
in the file /etc/shadow, assuming you're using shadowed passwords, 
replace the password hash with !!
username:!!:  .................

Mike

On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 12:06  PM, 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?
>
> Chris Romano
>
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