[X-Unix] Remote force logout and lockout of user

[Alexandre Gauthier]

On 15/06/04 00:45, "luke" <etyrnal at ameritech.net> wrote:

> 
> On Monday, June 14, 2004, at 08:24  AM, Craig A. Finseth wrote:
> 
>>    sure would be cool to find out that there is a unix-way to set a
>>    enable/disable account bit for a user...
>> 
>> There is.  Change their login shell to /dev/null and change their
>> _encyrpted_ password text in /etc/shadow to something like "***no
>> login***" (or any other text that can _not_ be output by the crypt(2)
>> call).
>> 
>> These changes keep someone from logging in, but won't affect current
> 
> how does that work for re-enabling?
> 
> their password is  now gone.
> 

Hence why the exclamation mark trick.
However, the passwd and shadow files are not used under OS X, it relies upon
netinfo. Perhaps that would work there as well?