Re: Listing locked user accounts on Linux
By: Chris Trainor to John Guillory on Wed May 02 2012 01:06 am
> Yes, /etc/passwd still exists on modern systems, but you cannot tell if
> the user account is locked out from that.
I often wondered why folks used to make it sound like 'shadowed' passwords
where secure, all it looked like they was doing was moving the file to
another location.... ;-)
Back to the distributions, the basic's of linux command line and commands are
generally the same. The only benifiets of various distributions is usually
ease of use to download and install apps, and a pretty looking default window
manager, etc. With that being said, get familiar with apt-get (or slapt-get,
which has the same syntax), yum, and rpm and you should be set for about
anything. I used Centos, Ubunto, Slackware, Mandrake, redhat, Mandrivia, and
recently Debian. I've also dabbled in Gentoo, but don't remember enough of
it... Either way, Ubunto and Centos used Yum, Mandrake/Redhat/Mandrivia had
RPM, and the rest used either apt-get or slapt-get. You could probably write a
script to standardize the various distributions for folks not wanting to learn
any other commands... Eg. write a script called install.sh and have it
automatically call either apt-get, slapt-get, yum, or apt4rpm, whichever is
appropriate, then distribute the script on all major distributions... From
what I understand, folks recommend apt4rpm, yum, slapt-get, or apt-get better
than the original package installation methods when those are not the normal
method, because they check for dependencies and don't allow for broken
dependencies...
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