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

[Dan Frakes]

On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 23:37:03 -0500, luke <etyrnal at ameritech.net> wrote:
> sure would be cool to find out that there is a unix-way to set a
> enable/disable account bit for a user...

If you log in remotely via SSH, you should be able to use the niutil command
to replace the "passwd" value for /users/username in the NetInfo database
with an asterisk (*):

niutil -createprop / /users/username passwd '*'


This not only prevents the user account from appearing at the login screen,
but also prevents them from logging in at all.


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