locked account accessable via pubkey auth

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Thu Jan 31 12:25:17 EST 2002


Once upon a time, Frank Cusack <fcusack at fcusack.com> said:
> That's not what the RH-Linux man page says:
> 
>        -l     This option is used to lock the  specified  account
> 
> This is from a passwd-0.64.1-1, shadow-utils-19990827-10 system.
> 
> However, a quick look through the pam-0.72-20 sources shows that the account
> is not locked; just the password (for both pam_pwdb and pam_unix).  ie,
> pam_acct_mgmt() returns no error for an "account" locked with 'passwd -l'.

Oh well.  The patch I submitted back in 1998 said that it locked the
password, not the account. :-)
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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