Tag Archives: hardy

Hardy, exim4, SMTP-AUTH and LDAP… (or debian openssl causes pain)

May 15, 2008 – 10:33 am

As most people will know yesterday caused a lot of people a lot of pain as they ran around replacing SSH keys and SSL certificates. While running around fixing up all our servers, most of them in one felll swoop thanks to puppet, I realised two of our servers were still running Edgy. I figured [...]

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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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