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# 8  
Old 03-05-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by rbatte1
One wonders why you would want the root account to never need changing. This is a security risk. You should have a regular procedure to change the root password and keep it secure. If someone managed to get your encrypted password file, then a brute force attack could eventually crack the root password and then they would have full control, including locking you out.


Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK
The OP never said he was never going to change the root password. He just said he didn't want the root account to have an automatic expiration.

Because automatic expiration of the root account is dumb. The only account that can fix it is root. But root's locked out because the account is expired.
# 9  
Old 03-05-2013
Have I got the wrong end of the query then? Are we talking about expiring the password, i.e. forcing it to be changed regularly or expiring the account if the password is not changed?

Fine distinction in the phrasing but a huge difference in meaning.

If I've got it wrong, then I agree, suspending the root account is generally a bad thing. I actually never log in as root though. I have appropriate privileges with sudo so it's all accountable etc. and the password is stored away for use off the console only.


Apologies if I'm got it all the gnorw yaw dnour.



Robin
# 10  
Old 03-09-2013
Never lock
Code:
usermod -K lock_after_retries=no root

Never expire
Code:
passwd -x -1 root
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