How to disable authentication for a particular user

[D G Teed]

2008/5/18 decoder <decoder at own-hero.net>:

> D G Teed wrote:
>
>> Any are sufficient, so I need to block them all.
>>
> That means you need a module that is required before those...
>
>>
>> Can anyone suggest a way to achieve this by having
>> a list of disabled or blocked user accounts which pam will
>> look at?
>>
> Have a look at pam_listfile which should be part of the standard PAM
> distribution.
>
>
>

Thanks, I added a line like this:
auth        required      pam_listfile.so onerr=succeed item=user sense=deny
file=/etc/blocked_imap_user

and this works great.

--Donald
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