From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 26 6:51: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from piper.kspu.kr.ua (piper.kspu.kr.ua [195.5.1.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55C0015C3F for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 06:50:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@piper.kspu.kr.ua) Received: (from john@localhost) by piper.kspu.kr.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA06045 for Freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 16:49:21 +0300 (EEST) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 16:49:20 +0300 From: John Savitsky To: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Disabling a user account Message-ID: <19990826164920.A6006@kspu.kr.ua> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD References: <017a01beefa4$5db4af30$14a8ef9b@impakt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-u X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <017a01beefa4$5db4af30$14a8ef9b@impakt>; from Langa Kentane on Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 11:17:50AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 11:17:50AM +0200, Langa Kentane wrote: > I want to deny a certain user access to my server and the server is running > ftp, pop3 and stuff. How do I go about doing this without deleting the user > account? You can simply do vipw and _ADD_ an * in the user's encrypted password. When you dicide to enable access, just remove asterisk from user's password. > Langa Kentane > System Administrator > Sunshine Networks cc > Tel +27 82 928 1952 -- Sincerely yours, John Savitsky System Administrator of KSPU To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message