On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Neil Zanella wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am running Linuxconf 1.12r5 ...
>
> There seems to be a problem with Linuxconf on my Red Hat 5.2 system:
>
> When I try to disactivate a user account nothing happens. Here is what
>
> is reported in /var/log/messages when I try to disable the account
>
> named "guest". It seems linuxconf thinks I'm trying to change shells instead.
>
> Feb 9 23:25:28 river usermod[5047]: change user `guest' shell from
> `/bin/bash' to `/bin/bash'
Linuxconf blindly call usermod after a change to an account even if that
yield no change (could be smarter). The problem you have is that disabling
an account does not work unless you use shadow password, which is a good
idea anyway. To activate shadow password, just do
/usr/sbin/pwconv
and then you will be able to disable accounts and do much more. The user
account dialog will be enlarge with new fields.
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