Thanks Christopher. That worked. It looks like either an asterisk or an
exclamation mark will work as I see either in /etc/shadow for various
accounts.
Thanks,
Ben
On Tuesday, October 23, 2012 4:44:40 AM UTC-7, Christopher Wood wrote:
>
> I don't believe you'll be able to remove the root user
I don't believe you'll be able to remove the root user without massive system
breakage due to how it's an essential system account. For example, your PID 1
likely runs as root.
Perhaps try something like this untested fragment, given how the star is
sometimes used to disable a password:
user {
Hi Ben,
Am 23.10.2012 09:08, schrieb Ben McCann:
> However, I don't believe the root user is logged in. Is it not possible to
> delete the root user? Is there something else I should do such as
> disabling its password?
>
The root user can not be removed.
The default settings on ubuntu are not
I have some machines running Ubuntu that have a root user on them setup by
my web host. I'd like to disable the root user.
I tried:
user { 'root':
ensure => absent,
}
But got the error message:
err: /Stage[main]/Users/User[root]/ensure: change from present to absent
failed: Could not d
