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Accounts & Privileges

Most breaches escalate through over-privileged accounts. Here we set strong password and lockout policy, disable unused and system accounts, restrict root, and apply the principle of least privilege everywhere.

  1. Least-privilege accounts and sudo on Linux

    Enforce strong passwords, account lockout, password aging, secure sudo drop-ins and a tight umask to apply least privilege on Linux systems.

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Least-privilege accounts and sudo on Linux
Enforce strong passwords, account lockout, password aging, secure sudo drop-ins and a tight umask to apply least privilege on Linux systems.
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