[dgbaker]

Just so everyone understands that command...

-l This option is used to lock the specified account and it is available to root only. The locking is performed by rendering the encrypted password into an invalid string (by prefixing the encrypted string with an !).


If you need to reverse it......


-u This is the reverse of the -l option - it will unlock the account password by removing the ! prefix. This option is available to root only. By default passwd will refuse to create a passwordless account (it will not unlock an account that has only "!" as a password). The force option -f will override this protection.

This is from the manpages of passwd.


Or doing a normal passwd reset re-enables the account as well. I have not tested but cpanel reset password via lost passwd would probably re-enable the account.