12 Nov
2001
12 Nov
'01
12:29 a.m.
On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Un|tZ wrote:
i was checking out the passwd -l (to lock a particular account) option on one of my linux systems. I found that it locked the account alrite and then i tried to unlock the account by using the passwd -u option and i failed. i mean, the -u option shows that the
If you do man passwd, and look under the -l option, it will tell you what it does to lock an account. If you look at the -u option, it will tell you what it does to unlock the account. I think it is a trivial step to do this manually.
Philip
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