On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 07:53:52AM +0200, morla wrote: > hello all, > > i just made up a second account on my box and wanted to prevent the old > one from loging into it, due i want to keep it for email retrival. > > when i enter something like > > morla:*:1000:1000:morla:/home/morla:/sbin/nologin > > into /etc/passwd and a similary entry into /etc/master.passwd should'nt > this keep me out???
did you use vipw(8) ? this automatically updates the user database. Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
