Monthly Archives: April 2008

Hardy and password locking

April 29, 2008 – 4:32 pm

passwd -l root In gutsy the above would simply lock the account by placing an ! in front of the passwd in your /etc/shadow file. In hardy it now also sets the account as expired. Meaning you can’t ssh to it even if you have SSH keys in place. Time to go and rebuild my [...]

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Sorting in Mutt

April 14, 2008 – 1:21 pm

A couple of days ago I discovered the following mutt config option. set sort = threads set sort_aux = last-date-received This means you get the usual threading but that a thread is sorted by the date the last message in the thread was received. This keeps a thread which receives new mail at the bottom [...]

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