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

[luke]

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.