Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 86323
"User account is locked" only locks local password
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:52:12 EDT
The user account properties dialog contains a "User account is locked" checkbox in the Account Info tab. This checkbox, however, only causes the local password to be !!'d out -- it doesn't actually "lock" the account in the way someone might expect. Someone using Kerberos, for example, can get in just fine. I see two possible solutions to this. First, change the wording to say "Local password is locked". Alternately, instead of locking with !!, change the account to be expired.
Nalin, how would you recommend that we address this?
For now we should just document that we're locking the local password, but long-term we should roll Kerberos administration into the underlying management library. Doing that makes things *really* complicated, because you'll suddenly run into cases where the local admin can administer local files but nothing else.
Cases where the local admin can administer local files but nothing else is pretty much the standard environment here. :)
I changed the string to say "Local password is locked". Should be fixed in redhat-config-users-1.1.6-1. Thanks for your report.