Linux locked accounts and PAM

[Thorsten Kukuk]

On Wed, Oct 08, Solar Designer wrote:

> Also, one has to deal with the password hash string, even if via the
> proper tools, to configure an account like that.  "usermod -L" and
> "passwd -l" are "admin-friendly" approaches; there's no equivalent that
> would be as friendly for "*-locking" (and "*-unlocking") an account.

usermod -p '*' <account> works fine for me on openSUSE.

  Thorsten

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