[X-Unix] Disable user accounts?

[John Harrold]

Sometime in May Eric F Crist assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| 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.

If you just want to disable the user and not delete them, you can probably
find something in Applications-->Utilities-->Netinfo Manager. You can try
changing their shell to /urs/bin/false.

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