Answer / aman thakur

Simply edit a line in /etc/passwd and chage user's shell to /bin/false(in case of ubuntu) or /bin/nologin(incase of redhat or fedora)

Answer / balaji

usermod -s /sbin/nologin username

Answer / arnab chowdury

Simply edit a line in /etc/passwd and chage user's shell to /sbin/nologin

Answer / tinku prasad

Simply edit a line in /etc/passwd and chage user's shell
to /sbin/nologin

Answer / naveen.esamalla

i know just lock the useraccount ie usermod -L username

Answer / santhosh kumar

use password aging for that user. and set the date which is already past..!!! "chage username" is the command

Answer / girish

vi /etc/passwd
student:x:500:500::/home/student:/bin/bash
student:*:500:500::/home/student:/bin/bash

here student is user and just replace "X" with "*"

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