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1st – Turn off User Account Control
Disable annoying pop-ups that appear each time you open a program.
, clicking Control Panel, clicking User Accounts and Family Safety (or clicking User Accounts, if you are connected to a network domain), and then clicking User Accounts.
If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
By default, most Linux distributions do not enable password aging. This means passwords do not expire and is it possible for a user to have the same password indefinitely. This situation is not secure. For security reasons, it is advisable to require users to change their passwords periodically.
Password aging is a mechanism that allows the system to enforce a certain lifetime for passwords. The chage command is used to modify password aging.
# chage [options] username (more...)
