I cannot login in after a fresh install, don't know root password, and it never asked me to create a user
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Aug 5 00:34:55 UTC 2005
Michael J. Lynch wrote:
> Tim Holmes wrote:
>>
>> If the user has the root password, he/she should have enough smarts to
>> not go screwing stuff up. If the person does not need the root
>> password, don't give it to them, but don't cripple the distro for the
>> rest of us -- Setting the root password is the first thing I do on a new
>> Ubuntu install
>>
>
> I take it a step further (for machines for which I'm not worried
> about security), I make the root account not only passwordless but
> I also make *pam* allow root login with no password via TELNET and
> SSH.
I suspect I smell a troll... but please describe this hypothetical machine.
It can't run any servers. It can't have any compilers. It better not hold
any personal data. What do you do with it?
--
derek
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