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Old 04-28-2007
ghostdog74 ghostdog74 is offline Forum Advisor  
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Code:
awk -F ":" 'BEGIN{OFS = ":"} /youruser/{$2="*LK*"}{ print}' /etc/passwd

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Last edited by ghostdog74; 04-28-2007 at 02:42 AM..