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Which it does for me:
awk -F';' ' /^;/ {next } FNR>1 { $2=($2) ? "Disabled":"Enabled"}1' OFS=';' file
Login;Status
Luca;Disabled
Marco;Enabled
Stefano;Disabled
Elettra;Disabled
Laura;Enabled
...

Modified vgresh99 script

awk -F';' ' /^;/ {next } FNR>1 { $2=($2) ? "Disabled":"Enabled"}1' OFS=';' file

Hi looney,
Note that the above code changes the first line of input:
Login;Statusto:
Login;Enabled
but the desired output showed that that line was not supposed to be changed.

To meet the...

bashwhile IFS=";" read f1 f2
do
[[ $f2 == "S" ]] && echo "$f1;Disabled" || { echo "$f1;Enabled" ;}
done < file

Another variation:
awk '$2=="S"{$2="Disabled"} $2==""{$2="Enabled"}1' FS=\; OFS=\; file

Hello kamose,

If you have only 2 fields as shown in your sample Input_file then following may help you too.

awk -F";" '{printf("%s;%s\n",$1,($2==""?"Enabled":((NR==1)?$2:"Disabled")))}' ...

awk -F';' 'FNR>1 {$2=($2)?"Disabled":"Enabled"}1' OFS=';' myFile

If you save the script vgersh99 suggested in a file named kam.awk, you need to use the same name in the command line when you invoke awk:
awk -f kam.awk Milano Torino Firenze
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awk -F";" 'length($1) > 7 {print > "log";next} 1' file > TMP && mv TMP file