RE: Lock Account

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From: "Parsons, Rick" <rick.parsons@eds.com>
To: "SecureShell (E-mail)" <secureshell@securityfocus.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:19:56 -0000

James said ...

> Another drawback to this method is that now all the files that were
> previously owned by "miguel" are now owned by "*miguel", potentially
> creating confusion.

Only because it stores owner's of files by UID's and checks /etc/passwd
for the username string associated with that UID. If you change *miguel
back to miguel, everything is owned by miguel again. It's important to
not mislead people into thinking major system changes have occured when
they actually have not.

---- My point precisely. That is why you shouldn't do it.

Rick Parsons

Bristol, England

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