[CentOS] Checking if a user is 'Disabled'

[Steve Huff]

On Oct 28, 2008, at 7:46 AM, Tom Brown wrote:

> I need to create some local users but then 'disable' that user. I  
> know i can enable and disable the user by using usermod -L and -U  
> but does anyone know if there is a way for me to see the current  
> status of the user? ie locked or unlocked?


this should get you a list of all the users which have been disabled  
by means of `usermod -L`:

perl -e 'open($SHADOW, "<", "/etc/shadow") or die( "$!\n" ); while ( < 
$SHADOW> ) { chomp; print "$1\n" if (/^([^:]*):!{1}[^!:]*:.*$/) }  
close( $SHADOW );'

you'll need to run it as root.  no doubt that regex could be cleaned  
up a bit :)

-steve

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