Re: [cobalt-users] suspending users

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The easiest way is to change their password and put a new index.html file 
in their home page.

The problem is reclaiming their old password and index.html page when you 
want to unsuspend them.

The best way is to manually edit /etc/shadow (as root) and add an asterisk 
in front of the first character of the password field (the field between 
the first two colons).  No password hashes to anything with an asterisk in 
it, so that works.  You can take out the asterisk later to re-enable the 
password.

To disable the website, mv his index.html file to index.html.suspended, and 
create a new index.html file with the "This user is suspended" text in 
it.  Then when you reinstate, just delete the index.html file and mv 
index.html.suspended back to index.html.

Jeff

At 11:55 AM 2/2/00  RHLinux- WHN wrote:
> anyone have a easy way to suspend users?
>
>  which may include putting a "This user is suspended" on their home page on
> a RAQ2 or RAQ3?

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