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Re: Permissions on NFS mounts



On Jo, 10 dec 20, 12:52:56, Reco wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 11:46:02AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > 
> > passwd -l/--lock <username>
> 
> sudo -u <locked_user> /bin/bash -i
> 
> That little trick defeats "locked" account status, an absence of a
> password and even /usr/sbin/nologin set as a default shell.

With sudo access one can also unlock the account as well, so how is this 
relevant?

As I already hinted, the 'locked' status has another limitation that may 
or may not be desired, depending on use case.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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