Thanks Chris.
I got the command ,
usermod -p * user /dev/null
Actually i want to make user with no access at any time.
Best Regards,
pavan
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Chris Tyler ch...@tylers.info wrote:
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 19:37 +0530, Sudarshan Soma wrote:
Hi All,
I need to add a user who will have entry in the /etc/passwd file as
below, where the passwd field is marked as *
myuser:*:12:23:guest:/:/bin/bash
I need to do this by using command useradd, but i am not able to find
easier way to do this by commands other than manually editing passwd
file.
The intention is to create a user with whcih login can never happen
Please suggest
Hi Pavan,
First, you should in almost all cases have shadow password support
enabled, so the actual passwords will be in /etc/shadow not /etc/passwd.
Second, useradd will by default create an account which cannot be
accessed until a password is added (typically with the passwd command).
If you need to lock an account that has a password so that it cannot be
used for login, you can use passwd -l username; note that this
prepends an exclamation mark to the password field (does the same thing
as your star). The opposite command is passwd -u username, which
unlocks the account.
-Chris
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