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How to temporary disable users

April 9, 2009 – 6:05 am

Hi!, If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or sign up for free email updates.. Thanks for visiting!From time to time, we will need to disable users.  This may be prior to the permanent deletion of the user account or just as a precautionary step.
As root, you can [...]

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How to create user with password assigned

April 9, 2009 – 5:56 am

If you create new users (as root) using
# useradd –m tux

You will have created a newuser with it being disabled.  This means that the password entry (the 2nd column) in the /etc/shadow will have a ! as the entry, i.e.
tux:!:14343:0:99999:7:::

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