disable users

Jerome Walter walter+SP at M.efrei.fr
Mon Sep 1 03:18:06 EDT 2003


maro wrote:

> hi everybody,
> i have a problem and here it is.
> We have windows 2000 domain and a kerberos realm hosted on unix. in
> active directory we have user accounts mapped to kerberos principals.
> users choose the kerberos realm to login to windows machines and
> supply their  credentials for kerberos realm. usernames are the same
> in active directory and on unix,passwords are different.
> the problem is that when i disable a user account in active
> directory,the user can still login to kerberos realm. this should not
> happen because when the user is logging to a windows machine active
> directory is queried.
> does anybody have an idea about that?

What about setting their default shell to /bin/false in the NIS or LDAP 
account of the unix user ? I think most of the Unix sysadmin would take 
this solution...

Sincerely,

Jerome Walter



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