locked account accessable via pubkey auth

[Nicolas Williams]

Leave things as they are please - do not add a check to see if the
password field in the shadow entry is *LK*, that would not be generally
useful (think: what if you're using only Kerberos for password
validation?).

Setting a user's shell to /bin/false works quite well. So does putting
them in a deny group.

And BTW, you do have the same sort of problem with, say, Samba.

If you're using PAM you can always add write/install/use a PAM module
whose job is to return PAM_PERM_DENIED or something from its
pam_sm_acct_mgmt() for locked accounts using whatever mechanism youX
prefer for checking for locked accounts.

That's what PAM is there for. Better to write/install/use a PAM module
than to add kludges to apps like OpenSSH.

IMHO.

Cheers,

Nico
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