That's from the lock(1) man page, not the pw(8) man page. the relevant section from the pw man page is as follows:
USER LOCKING Pw supports a simple password locking mechanism for users; it works by prepending the string `*LOCKED*' to the beginning of the password field in master.passwd to prevent successful authentication. The lock and unlock commands take a user name or uid of the account to lock or unlock, respectively. The -V, -C, and -q options as described above are accepted by these commands. On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 21:01, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > > this is what i pulled from the 'pw' man page about the 'lock' option. > > to me, it doesn't seem as if they do the same thing. > > --------- > DESCRIPTION > The lock utility requests a password from the user, reads it again for > verification and then will normally not relinquish the terminal until the > password is repeated. There are two other conditions under which it will > terminate: it will timeout after some interval of time and it may be > killed by someone with the appropriate permission. > ---------- > > whereas the linux version states that it makes the account available for > root only. > > ---------- > -l > 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 (by prefixing the encrypted string with an !). > ---------- > > > --- Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 08:17:53AM -0700, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > > > > > > i'm following a pretty decent IBM tutorial on how to setup a samba > > PDC. > > > in the tutorial the following command is mentioned: > > > > > > passwd -l > > > > pw lock [user] > > > > Check the pw manpage. > > > > Ceri > > > > -- > > you can't see when light's so strong > > you can't see when light is gone > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes > http://autos.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >
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