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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to suspend a user account? Post 302299675 by daikeyang on Friday 20th of March 2009 06:59:43 PM

03-20-2009

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How to suspend a user account?

Hi, guys. I have two questions:

I need to write a script, which can show all the non-suspended users on system, and suspend the selected user account.

There are two things I am not sure:

1. How can I suspend user's account? What I think is: add a string to the encrypted password in shadow file, then the user is not able to login into the system.

2. How can I know which accounts are suspended? What I think is: add fix string to the encrypted password in the shadow file, if I found any encrypted passwords begins with that string, I know these account are suspended.

Are these ideas good practices?

Thank you very much for your time in advance

-Keyang

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suspend

suspend(1)                                                         User Commands                                                        suspend(1)

NAME

       suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell

SYNOPSIS

   sh
       suspend

   csh
       suspend

   ksh
       suspend

DESCRIPTION

   sh
       Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).

   csh
       Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su.

   ksh
       Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcsu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       csh(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1), su(1M), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10                                                          15 Apr 1994                                                         suspend(1)