You can use the passwd utility to do it too. As root use passwd -l "accountname" to lock it and to unlock use again as root passwd -u "accountname" Hope that this helps. Marshall Heartley A+ Network+ "Nothing is impossible, We just do not have all the anwsers to make the impossible possible." On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 14:16, gahn wrote:

Hi all:

how can i manually lock an account on suse linux? could i just do something on the filke /etc/shadow?

tia

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