What microsoft has to say about XP

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 18:23 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:
> You might just want to disable root's login: I haven't tried this (or
> anything else I'm recommending), but I should imagine that reducing the
> length of the shadow password in /etc/shadow would mean that no
> encrypted password would match. That would mean you couldn't log in by
> password.

The passwd command has a lockout and a disable feature; see the man page
for details. However, I do not recommend this. Simply eliminate the
ability to log in remotely as root, and lock the system down properly.

Cheers,

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Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>