Ubuntu as a server

[Dick Davies]

On 19/01/06, Kristian Vilmann <kvi at sslug.dk> wrote:
> Yuki Cuss wrote:

> > Typically, you will not want to enable the root login. Instead, have a
> > user account (such as yours) with sudo access, so you can step up to
> > root access just for what you need.

> ...right until it stops in single user mode, the FCAL connection to your
> /home-partition is broken or someone screws up /etc/sudoers (yes, we've
> had that happen!)

I'm pretty sure that can be got around with console boot and passing

 init=/bin/bash

? It doesn't feel right to me to have a password enabled for an account
I don't want anyone to use, but each to their own.

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