Re: RH 6.0 shadow passwords and locking users bug

[shuman () ANNEXGRP ORG (Shuman)]

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Prince Ctrl wrote:
[ When administering a Red Hat 6.0 server and locking users with the
[ 'passwd -l <user>' command, and then unlocking a user with the 'passwd
[ -u <user>' command, a control character is added to the end of a
[ users' encrypted password in the form of a "^Q" in the shadowed passwd
[ file.

The "usermod" program, a part of shadow-utils that comes with RedHat 6.0
has a similar feature and does NOT has this "^Q" problem when unlocking.

To lock an account:
usermod -L username

To unlock an account:
usermod -U username

[ OS affected/tested: Red Hat 6.0

Too bad, I just upgraded the last RH 5.2 box to 6.0 today!

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