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Re: Cron jobs and root account locked on Lenny



On Wed,23.Jul.08, 09:00:22, Alexander Fortin wrote:
> On Jul 23, 2:30 pm, Brian Marshall <bm...@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> > That said, I don't recommend allowing root login over ssh, but than can
> > be disabled with sshd.
> 
> I partially agree with the useless of the feauture, but Debian
> installer is asking if you want to allow root login or not, so I'm

Only in expert mode ;)

> pretty sure I'm not the only one on Lenny with locked root account and
> root cron jobs running, and I still think this could lead to
> confusion, especially if you were used to lock root accunt under Etch.
 
I'm not an expert, but a quick read through passwd(1) says account 
expiry should be set to '1', while your 'passwd -S' shows '-1', just 
like a normal account.

How about trying to lock it again?

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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