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Disabling User IDs

You can prohibit all logons to a user ID by changing its password to NOLOG. You may want to disable a user ID this way as an interim step between expiring its password because it is inactive and deleting it from the system.

User IDs can link to the minidisks of a user ID that is disabled in this manner, even though the users of these user IDs cannot log on except by having you re–enable their user IDs. You can determine whether a user ID is truly inactive by whether you are asked to reenable it.

To disable logons to a user ID by changing their passwords to NOLOG, enter the following command, replacing the user ID userid with the user ID that you want to disable:

vmdirect nolog userid