[Mimedefang] Is it neccessary to 'Secure' the defang user?

[listuser at numbnuts.net]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Dirk Mueller wrote:

> On Mit, 30 Apr 2003, David F. Skoll wrote:
> 
> > You want to lock that down quickly.  Check your distribution's documentation
> > to find out how to lock out an account (that is, make it impossible to log
> > in no matter what password is typed.)  It usually involves putting a "*"
> > in the encrypted password field in /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow.
> 
> Please note that on all distributions I know, useradd locks the password by 
> default. 

usermod -L defang

will do it if for some reason it isn't already done.  For that matter 
gibberish in the password field would work too.

Justin