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Deactivate a user account in Solaris 10

Hi,
I need to deactivate a user account for some time and then reactivate the user account ...
Can anybody please help me how to do this.....

I don't have root privileges but i have sudo to privileges.

Thanks....

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setuidgid(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      setuidgid(8)

NAME
setuidgid - runs another program under a specified account's uid and gid. SYNOPSIS
setuidgid account child DESCRIPTION
account is a single argument. child consists of one or more arguments. setuidgid sets its uid and gid to account's uid and gid, removing all supplementary groups. It then runs child. setuidgid cannot be run by anyone other than root. EXIT CODES
setuidgid exits 111 if it cannot find a UNIX account named account, if it cannot setgid, if it cannot setuid, or if it cannot run child. Otherwise its exit code is the same as that of child. SEE ALSO
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