#usermod -L user This will add an exclamation mark “!” in the second field of the file /etc/passwd. or use #passwd -l testuser There are several ways in which user account can be locked or disabled. The posts discusses few of the most widely used ways. 1. Lock the password To lock a users account…
By default, the LVM configuration does not allow you to log the commands that are used in a shell or in a GUI (e.g system-config-lvm) environment. However, it’s possible to active logging using the configuration file /etc/lvm/lvm.conf. Activate logging for all LVM commands To active logging follow these steps. 1. Edit the lvm.conf file and find…
Perform these steps to set up the syslog server: 1. Uncomment the following lines in the ‘MODULES‘ section of /etc/rsyslog.conf: # vi /etc/rsyslog.conf $ModLoad imtcp $InputTCPServerRun 514 If you are using UDP then uncomment following lines: # vi /etc/rsyslog.conf $ModLoad imudp $UDPServerRun 514 2. Configure the rsyslog server to recieve rsyslog events from client. To receive…