On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
Caleb Cushing wrote:
so here's the problem I've discovered
http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com/2009/11/bypassing-disabled-accounts-with-k... < links to arch bug included posting here because I believe both kde's and arch's developers responses are less than satisfactory. This is a security bug an easy to fix without making users lives more difficult.
Oh no. It has been 1 day and my "bug" is not fixed! I must blog about it so the world listens to me...
"I shouldn't have to disable an account in more than 1 way to disable it across the board."
Let see... one step procedures for disabling the user account
1) change password for that user 2) put an asterisk "*" at the beginning of the second field (before the encrypted password) in the file /etc/shadow. 3) set an account expiry date using chage 3) userdel is permanent one step procedure that works very well...
#2 is my preferred.
As far as the people I know, passwd -d and passwd -l are the most common ways to do this. They do NOT change the shell. Changing the shell to lock out an account is laughable