01-22-2007
Temporarily Disable User Account
I want to temporarily disable a user account on HP-UX at the start of a script and renable the account at the end of the script. What would be the best method on HP-UX to temporarily disable a user account? I know of the passwd -l option that will lock the account, but I do not see a flag for unlocking the account. I was hoping to avoid messing with the /etc/passwd file if possible.
Has anyone performed something similar and how did you go about doing it? Thanks in advance.
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lchage
lchage(8) System Manager's Manual lchage(8)
NAME
lchage - Display or change user password policy
SYNOPSIS
lchage [OPTION]... user
DESCRIPTION
Displays or allows changing password policy of user.
OPTIONS
-d, --date=days
Set the date of last password change to days after Jan 1 1970.
-E, --expire=days
Set the account expiration date to days after Jan 1 1970. Set days to -1 to disable account expiration.
-i, --interactive
Ask all questions when connecting to the user database, even if default answers are set up in libuser configuration.
-I, --inactive=days
Disable the account after days after password expires (after the user user is required to change the password).
-l, --list
Only list current user's policy and make no changes.
-m, --mindays=days
Require at least days days between password changes. Set days to 0 to disable this checking.
-M, --maxdays=days
Require changing the password after days since last password change. Set days to 99999 to disable this checking.
-W, --warndays=days
Start warning the user days before password expires (before the user is required to change the password).
EXIT STATUS
The exit status is 0 on success, nonzero on error.
libuser Jan 12 2005 lchage(8)