Re: [root user] How to disable root account?

[Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com>]

Björn Lindström wrote:
> Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>
> > Secondly, if you do lock out root, how whould you administer the
> > system? Would sudo still allow you root access? I don't know and I
> > would not want to try it on MY system.
>
>
> If you don't know, why are you answering? ;-)
>
> It works fine.
>
> passwd -l simply sets the password to a value matching no
> passwords. sudo works by running SUID root, and so does not depend on a
> root password in any way.

Since the person who originally suggested this said that he did not KNOW 
if this would work, I was just saying that I would not want to 
experiment with it in my system without better knowledge of what, 
exactly, would happen.  It has already been posted that this will lock 
out root from a login, but that sudo will still be able to access the 
root account.

It sounds like it is what the OP was looking for.

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Marc Shapiro
mshapiro_42@yahoo.com