Re: Cleaning out users

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
Johnny Rebel wrote:
laredotornado wrote:
Hi,

I'm using Fedora Core 6. As root user, logged in remotely, how do I
identify and delete/disable all users with remote access to the
machine except user "root" and user "dave"?

Thanks, - Dave

vipw. Don't delete the system/daemon users along with root and dave.

JR.


Or edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config to restrict access to specific users.

And *NO*, don't use vipw for this! It's too easy to make mistakes. If you have a well-defined set of users to delete, use "userdel".

While I understand what you are saying, it does not meet the stated requirement of "all users with remote access" - which covers ftp, telnet, smb, ssh, etc... vipwd pretty much covers this with the exception of 'anonymous' type logons. The only way to deal with this is disable the services/config options, and/or put a firewall up.

JR.


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