[X-Unix] Disable user accounts?

[Eric F Crist]

On May 21, 2005, at 10:28 AM, ~flipper wrote:

> 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

Brian,

Thanks for the reply, but I wasn't looking for how to delete an  
account, but to temporarily disable it.  With *real* unix systems,  
you can set and activation/deactivation date, lock an account, etc.



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