How can I disable a User Account from the CLI with Mac OS X Server?

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Published on 2009-09-01T16:03:21Z Indexed on 2010/06/03 16:04 UTC
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Is there any possible solution to disable a User from the CLI e.g. over SSH? There has to be a dscl command for that. Or is there a dsAttrTypeStandard attribute that I can set accordingly?

Any pointers ?

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