Tuesday, 22 April 2014

How to enable / disable user account on Linux.

Before you remove an account from a system, is a good idea lock it for one week to make sure that no one use it.

To lock, you can use the Below command:


#passwd -l username (where username is the login id).


This option is used to lock the specified account and it is available to root only. The locking is performed by rendering the encrypted password into an invalid string.
 
After that, if someone try to login using this account, the system will return:

 
# su - username

 
This account is currently not available.

To Unlock the same account

 
Following command re-enables an account by changing the password back to its previous value i.e. to value before using -l option.


#passwd -u username


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