Some help with creating users with no permissions

[CharlesA]

Hi all,

I don't want to mess with security settings (just yet) so that I can create users using the GUI on Ubuntu Server. However, I am wondering if there is a way to set the user group so that they don't have any way to login.

When I created a few users before throwing my server in a corner with no keyboard/mouse/monitor, I was able to create users from gnome using the Users and Groups command. There was an option to create a user with no permissions.

Is this possible to do from the command line, and if so, how would it be done?

I've already set those those users to use /dev/null for both the home directory and the shell.

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks in advance!

[yknivag]

Creation of users is done using the command

sudo useradd username

This will create a locked user who will have no access.

sudo passwd -l username

will stop an existing user from logging in and/or getting a shell.

You can then (re)activate them (if required) by changing the password.

sudo passwd username

[CharlesA]

Creation of users is done using the command

sudo useradd username

This will create a locked user who will have no access.

sudo passwd -l username

will stop an existing user from logging in and/or getting a shell.

You can then (re)activate them (if required) by changing the password.

sudo passwd username

Thanks!

I thought that would lock me out of accessing Samba shares with those account names. Apparently not.