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thanks everybody,
wood
On May 24, 2004, at 5:31 PM, Danny Cox wrote:

> Thomas,
>
> On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 01:17, Thomas Wood wrote:
>> Has
>> anyone else found a more elegant solution?  I'd really like to keep my
>> DBAs in the loop, password-wise, but they don't need the password and 
>> I
>> think I can prevent them from changing it.
>>
>> Any thoughts?  And no, tcp wrappers doesn't let you filter by 
>> username.
>>   Oh that it did.  Also, I'm trying to avoid installing a firewall on 
>> my
>> DB, so please, no filter rulesets.
>
> 	Will passwd -l (see man 1 passwd) do?  It "locks" the account, only
> allowing root to gain access.  It may close the door too much, though.
>
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>
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