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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Setting an account to be a non-login account automatically? Post 302076871 by LordJezo on Friday 16th of June 2006 09:28:09 AM
Old 06-16-2006
Setting an account to be a non-login account automatically?

Is there a way to easily change an account to be a non login account (NP in the shadow) file?

I know I can just edit the file but that is not what we want to do. We use access control software and want to provide a way to set an account to be non-login using simple commands that can be mapped to a GUI.

I see that there is a built in command to set the password to be *LK* but that makes it so the cron wont run for that user, we still need the cron to run and the NP is the standard way to go.

Is there anything that can be done?

(I see it's passwd -N in Solaris 10 but we are still on 9, is there a way to get it in 9?)

Last edited by LordJezo; 06-16-2006 at 10:41 AM..
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pwconv(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 pwconv(8)

NAME
pwconv - convert to shadow account SYNOPSIS
pwconv [-P path] DESCRIPTION
pwconv installs and updates /etc/shadow with information from /etc/passwd. It relies on the special password 'x' in the password field of the account. This value indicates that the password for the user is already in /etc/shadow and should not be modified. If /etc/shadow does not exist, pwconv creates this file, moves the user password to it and creates default aging informations with the help of the values of PASS_MIN_DAYS, PASS_MAX_DAYS and PASS_WARN_AGE from /etc/login.defs. The password field in /etc/passwd is replaced with the special character 'x'. If the /etc/shadow does exist, entries that are in the /etc/passwd file and not in the /etc/shadow file are added to the /etc/shadow file. Accounts, which only exist in /etc/passwd, are added to /etc/shadow. Entries that are in /etc/shadow and not in /etc/passwd are removed from /etc/shadow. All passwords from /etc/passwd are moved to /etc/shadow and replaced with the special character 'x'. pwconv can be used for initial conversion and for updates later. OPTIONS
-P, --path path The passwd and shadow files are located below the specified directory path. pwconv will use this files, not /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. FILES
passwd - user account information shadow - shadow user account information SEE ALSO
passwd(1), login.defs(5), passwd(5), shadow(5), pwck(8), pwunconv(8) AUTHOR
Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> pwdutils January 2004 pwconv(8)
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