How to Protect the User Accounts Created by the SAP on Linux Test Drives?

Our test drives create some users on your Linux system, which are needed for running the SAP system or the database, like <sid>adm, sdb or db2.

Since the TestDrives are designed for easy use - not for high security - we strongly discourage using the test drives on productive or sensitive systems, e.g. machines which get directly connected to the Internet or are attached to bigger LANs. Nevertheless, as a safeguard, you should change the passwords of those users, or even lock them, so nobody can log in.

  • Changing the default password:
    e.g. as user root: passwd and set a stronger password.
  • Locking the user:
    e.g. as user root: passwd -l . Afterwards you can't directly log-in as this user, but you can still switch to this user via su -

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