[TriLUG] Reminder: TriLUG upcoming events; meeting tomorrow, installfest Saturday

Magnus chrish at trilug.org
Fri Jul 11 13:32:51 EDT 2003


On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 12:37 PM, Jason Tower wrote:

> 1. never permit user logons unless absolutely necessary.  you can 
> prevent this
> by using the -s option with useradd, or by manually changing the shell 
> in the
> /etc/passwd file.  if users are only using their account for mail, 
> change the
> shell to /bin/false!

Don't forget nologin(8)

> 2. don't permit the use of weak passwords!  bob/bob would appear to be 
> a
> particularly bad combo :-)

Perhaps if you had spelled it backwards it would have thrown people 
off. ;)

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C. Magnus Hedemark
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