Some commands doubts....

caio · 05-23-2003, 10:55 AM

Hi...

In order do add a new user acc, I should run adduser, but what if I want to exclude some acc??

In /etc/passwd are store my pass, right?? But I have only 3 accs, and in this files there are lots of lines... Is that OK??

Tnx in advance.
Caio.

unSpawn · 05-23-2003, 11:17 AM

In order do add a new user acc, I should run adduser, but what if I want to exclude some acc??
If you want to exclude accounts, just don't add 'em :-]
Or did you mean you want to disable an account?

In /etc/passwd are store my pass, right??
No, your account information, not the pass. That's in /etc/shadow.

But I have only 3 accs, and in this files there are lots of lines... Is that OK??
Yes, those accounts with a numerical UID/GID below 500 (2nd/3rd field) usually are users used by the system itself.

caio · 05-23-2003, 11:35 AM

The point is that I created an account and now I dont want it any more. So I decided to exclude it, or disable it, whatever...
How can I do it?

trickykid · 05-23-2003, 12:11 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by caio
The point is that I created an account and now I dont want it any more. So I decided to exclude it, or disable it, whatever...
How can I do it?

To remove from your system:
userdel -r <username>

To edit or disable, you could use the usermod command. man usermod for more options.

moses · 05-23-2003, 12:25 PM

If you want to just disable the account rather than delete it, change the shell field in /etc/passwd to /bin/false. Use vipw to edit the passwd file since it checks for syntax errors, which can save you if you screw up.