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#1 2023-09-29 10:10:33
- quellen
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Prevent root from change my user password
hello
How can I make it so that root can't change my password?
sorry for my bad english
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#2 2023-09-29 11:52:28
- loqs
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Re: Prevent root from change my user password
How can I make it so that root can't change my password?
You want root to not be able to change the password of users other than root? root is expected to be able to change the password of any user [1]. root is also the owner of /etc/shadow so can directly change the password without using passwd.
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#3 2023-09-29 13:27:31
- seth
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Re: Prevent root from change my user password
This is probably an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
@quellen, why do you think you want to prevent UID0 from changing some password (or, frankly, do anything)?
You cannot effectively prevent UID0 from doing anything. The root user is the omnipotent god of that system.
You can somewhat protect /etc/shadow from accidental changes, but whatever you can do to this effect, the root can undo. Always.
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#4 2023-09-29 14:32:01
- Docbroke
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Re: Prevent root from change my user password
Disable root user account.
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https://github.com/Docbroke
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#5 2023-09-29 14:47:37
- Trilby
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Re: Prevent root from change my user password
Disable root user account.
Huh? That's not possible. And if it was, it would render the system unmaintainable.
You can disable root login from certain vectors, but the root account will still be there.
"UNIX is simple and coherent" - Dennis Ritchie; "GNU's Not Unix" - Richard Stallman
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#6 2023-09-29 19:12:37
- ayekat
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