On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Rob Day wrote:
>
> what is the function of the pushbutton "The account is enabled"
> under user accounts? clicking the button out seems to have no
> effect on an account, where i thought it would disable the
> account. thanks.
This feature is currently non effective on system using PAM (redhat). But
there is a way out. Use shadow passwords (highly recommended anyway). To
enable shadow password, simply do
/usr/sbin/pwconv
then you will find that this check box is effective and that the user
account dialog has grown with many new fields.
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