Locking a password is not closing an account
Read the /etc/shadow line field by field, and close an account for every authentication method rather than only for passwords.
20 minutesTechnical content last reviewed on 13 Sept 2026
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What this lesson builds
- Granting exactly the access a person or process needs
- Knowing what the machine exposes, and closing the rest