Disable on Nico Maas

Gravatar considered harmful - disabling it on my blog

Mon, 06 Feb 2017 13:27:24 +0000

Due to the fact that Gravatar makes users very easily trackable (read r1ch.nets Post “Gravatar considered harmful”) I decided to remove the use of Gravatar from my blog. I did this be removing the feature in the Discussion Settings, as well as using the “Disable User Gravatar” plugin to prevent WordPress to leak your E-Mail address through your Gravatar on my blog.

Disable Root Account in Ubuntu

Fri, 15 Nov 2013 18:56:26 +0000

An freshly installed Ubuntu got the root Account set to the best and most secure state ever: DISABLED!
But if you use ready-made Appliances and such, most of these Ubuntu Appliances come with an enabled Root Account. How to disable this account? Easy:

sudo usermod -p '!' root

Source: https://serverfault.com/questions/178080/how-do-i-disable-root-login-in-ubuntu