denying loggins

[Richard Meeker]

Put an asterisk * in front of the field where the person's password goes.
I believe this is the textbook way of locking a given user's account.

> Don't know if you guys can answer this one, but I have
> people that dial into my system and I use radius to
> authenticate them. What I want to do is to prevent
> some users from being able to login with a username
> but still be able to check their e-mail.
> I was thinkng if I gave them a /dev/null shell that
> would prevent it. But I can still connect with a user
> that has a /dev/null/  do i need to put more
> information someplace else?
> Or is there another way to prevent these people from
> getting authenticated for a connection, but still able
> to get e-mail.
>
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