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Old 05-18-2017, 09:53 AM   #1
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passwd help

What is the Mac equivalent of these linux commands?

passwd -d username
passwd -l username


On Mac the man page for passwd doesn't list a -d. It has a -l but it doesn't look like it does the same thing.
 
Old 05-18-2017, 12:03 PM   #2
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What is the Mac equivalent of these linux commands?

passwd -d username
passwd -l username
The is no equivalent in Mac OS if I understand well the respective man pages.
 
Old 05-18-2017, 03:08 PM   #3
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I'm not exactly sure what you want to do, please explain in English what you want to do and I'll tell you how to do in Mac OS X.
 
Old 05-19-2017, 12:47 AM   #4
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dscl? Also found this, OS X & Linux CLI, from this web-search. Plus this etc.
https://ss64.com/osx/dscl.html http://bhami.com/rosetta.html
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Old 05-23-2017, 02:15 PM   #5
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I'm not exactly sure what you want to do, please explain in English what you want to do and I'll tell you how to do in Mac OS X.
I want to allow a user to ssh into my mac server via ssh keys. They shouldn't be able to log in via ssh with a password or at the console.
 
Old 06-01-2017, 07:50 PM   #6
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Try to edit /etc/shadow and replace the passwd string with an 'x', and setup your ssh keys.
 
  


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