Reporting and Disabling Expired OS User Accounts

This section describes the procedure to report and disable expired user accounts.

Perform the following steps to report and disable expired user accounts:

1. Log in as admusr on the source server.

   login: admusr
   Password: <current admin user password>

2. Run the following command to run the report of expired users:

   $ sudo lastlog -b <N>

   Note:

   This command displays the users who have not logged in over N number of days. It also shows the users that have never logged in. To filter those users out of the display use the following command:

   $ sudo lastlog -b <N> | grep -v Never

3. Run the following commnd to disable the user accounts identified by the lastlog report:

   $ sudo passwd -l <user acct>

   Note:

   Repeat this step for each user account you want to disable.
4. Run the following commnd to re-enable an account:

   $ sudo passwd -u <user acct>

   Note:

   Repeat this step for each user account you want to re-enable.