how can i make an user to nologin without locking the account for the user
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Answer / aman thakur
Simply edit a line in /etc/passwd and chage user's shell to /bin/false(in case of ubuntu) or /bin/nologin(incase of redhat or fedora)
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Answer / arnab chowdury
Simply edit a line in /etc/passwd and chage user's shell to /sbin/nologin
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 12 Yes | 4 No |
Answer / tinku prasad
Simply edit a line in /etc/passwd and chage user's shell
to /sbin/nologin
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Answer / naveen.esamalla
i know just lock the useraccount ie usermod -L username
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Answer / santhosh kumar
use password aging for that user. and set the date which is already past..!!! "chage username" is the command
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Answer / girish
vi /etc/passwd
student:x:500:500::/home/student:/bin/bash
student:*:500:500::/home/student:/bin/bash
here student is user and just replace "X" with "*"
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 1 Yes | 6 No |
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