How to disable a user

sasikumar123 · 08-09-2009, 01:49 AM

MS3FGX · 08-09-2009, 01:55 AM

Do you want to just disable the user, or completely delete the account from the system?

To simply lock a user out, you could use "usermod -L username", to reverse this you would use "usermod -U username".

If you wanted to delete just the user's login information you would do "userdel username", and if you wanted to remove the user and their /home directory (all of their personal files and directories), you would use "userdel -r username".

Dinithion · 08-09-2009, 01:59 AM

There's probably a few ways to do it, I personally prefer a command line approach. On my system I can deactivate an account like this:

usermod -L <username>

And reactivate with -U

usermod -U <username>

I hope this helps