I’m trying to force a newly created user to change a password at the first time login using ssh. For security reasons I want to give him a secure password until he logs in for the first time. I did the following so far:
I’m using Xubuntu. Before login I can choose a keyboard layout. I’m using xmodmap for remapping some keys.
After each login, there’s certain commands that I run on specific tabs of gnome-terminal. This is a tedious process, so can this be done automatically?
I saw the following snippet in this thread: How to change from csh to bash as default shell
I am trying to understand how user permissions work in Linux. The kernel boots and starts init as root, right? Init then runs startup scripts and runs getty (agetty), again as root. Agetty just reads user name and runs login, still as root, I think. Nothing interesting yet. But what does login do? I wasn’t able to find anything better than “it attempts to log in”. Suppose login finds that password matches (and we trying to log in as usual user), how does it change user id? I thought that there should be system call for that but I wasn’t able to find it (maybe I’m just blind?)
Mint 18.2 64b Cinnamon 3.4.3 This is running in a VM on my machine so I’m not worried about login security. I’ve been looking around on the Mint forums and only found a lot of threads about troubleshooting problems with autologin. The setting is not in the Login Window settings screen. The setting is not … Read more
If a user has loginShell=/sbin/nologin is it still possible to
Is there a way how you can check what auth method the user which just logged in to an account were using?
I’m trying to Create OS detect portable function in bash script,