Another interesting article with security in mind. From the article: You’re probably familiar with the live CD concept — a fully functional operating system on a CD that can be run on any computer that boots from its optical drive, without affecting the one(s) already installed. In a similar vein, you can set up Linux [...]
For security, reason it is necessary to disable all account(s) with no password and lock them down. Solaris, Linux and FreeBSD provide account locking (unlocking) facility. Lock Linux user account with the following command: passwd -l {user-name} For unlocking the account use: passwd -u {user-name} -l : This option disables an account by changing the [...]
