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I was just surprised that it still took the UID from the passwd entry, even though the line was commented out.

Yes.

OMG. I have never seen this before.

When I added the users back, I copied them and removed the comment.

I just removed the commented line for one of them and it looks OK.

How could I never have seen this before?

ROFL. That was a waste of 20,000 bits!

Thanks

Just a tip. When I disable accounts on AIX, the following works:

Code:

chuser account_lock=true <user>

to verify:
lsusuer -a account_locked <user>
<user> account_locked=true

to remove lock:
chuser account_lock=false

Toss into a loop if tons of user accounts and you're good to go.

Shows that if # is used in passwd file , it does comment out but also changes the user's name hehe.. I like the idea of minus sign after...

Hey where did you loose 20'000 bits? It seems to only give the ordinary 300...( Or is it for Neo )

LOL. That's the cost of creating a thread here. Maybe I should move it to the "Unix for Dummies" forum

getpwuid() reads /etc/passwd to translate the struct stat

Code:

uid_t st_uid

into a username - parses the file using : as a field sep. Using # to "comment out" lines in /etc/passwd
is non-standard so you confused getpwuid() into returning '# scott' as the the username.
If the account really no longer existed you would see a numeric uid because translation failed. Like when you tar from a foreign system.

I never had to to do tentative user remove like that.