On Thu,24.Jul.08, 22:35:01, Thilo Six wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote the following on 24.07.2008 22:04 > > > >> well here it does. Tested with both Debian lenny and Ubuntu hardy. > >> Which version do you use? > > > > I'm not the OP. > > > > Regards, > > Andrei > > I think that doesn't matter in this regard. You have said your passwd doesn't > behave as mentioned in the manpage, which would be clearly a bug. I never said *my* passwd doesn't lock, but the OP confirmed that his doesn't but usermod does. I just tested and on my machine 'passwd -l' and 'usermod -L' have the same effect, at least in the /etc/shadow file.
Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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