Different ways of locking accounts

From: "Wei Chen" <wchenhk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:18:55 +0800

Hi,

I recently found ways that can lock user accounts on the local machine,
including "passwd -l" and "usermod -L".

I am wondering now what is the difference between the two commands and which
one is preferred (or standard, or more widely used). Thanks.

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Wei
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