[CentOS] Checking if a user is 'Disabled'

Tue Oct 28 12:53:31 UTC 2008
Tom Brown <tom at ng23.net>

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> this should get you a list of all the users which have been disabled 
> by means of `usermod -L`:
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> perl -e 'open($SHADOW, "<", "/etc/shadow") or die( "$!\n" ); while ( 
> <$SHADOW> ) { chomp; print "$1\n" if (/^([^:]*):!{1}[^!:]*:.*$/) } 
> close( $SHADOW );'
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> you'll need to run it as root.  no doubt that regex could be cleaned 
> up a bit :)

thanks both - that gives me something to work with