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I'm not sure how to word this. I would like to be able to, remotely, lock down my kids' access either for an amount of time, or have lock/unlock control. Basically, I want to lock out an account temporarily until I unlock it remotely.


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A quick-and-dirty solution would be:




  • ssh into the box

  • change the password of the user your kids log in with ("sudo passwd kiddies")

  • issue "sudo poweroff"

  • tell them to finish their homework before they can use the machine again.



There may be better ways to disable a user account without changing the password, such as



sudo usermod --expiredate 1 kiddies


or 



sudo passwd -l kiddies


and to unlock:



sudo passwd -u kiddies

[#43595] Tuesday, July 12, 2022, 2 Years  [reply] [flag answer]
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