[X-Unix] Disable user accounts?

[~flipper]

Eric F Crist wrote:

>Hello list.
>
>I was curious about disabling user accounts.  On every other *nix 
>system I administer, I use pw to set the lock attribute, or on 
>systems without pw, I add a * to the user password field. 
>Obviously, vipw doesn't really apply to Mac OS X, as user accounts 
>aren't kept in the /etc/master.passwd file.
>
>For the record, I'm running Mac OS X 10.4.1. (Just upgraded from 
>10.3.9 last night).
>
>Thanks!

With Tiger, getting rid of a user account is simple, complete (it 
appears) and fast. Go to "Accounts" in System Preferences, click on 
the authorization button, enter your admin pw, select the account in 
the list above the 'auth' button, hit the (-) minus/hyphen symbol: 
Gone.

brian s