How to setup the same user/passwd and group on multiple ubuntu machines?

Wed Dec 25 10:03:48 UTC 2013

On Wed, 2013-12-25 at 09:36 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> I have six machines in my home, all with myself as a user with the
> same password.  What is the problem with that?

No problem. Carry on. Small private network, nothing really valuable or
confidential on it, no regulatory hassles if the machines get pwned, no
customers to sue you - the perfect use case for identical users and
passwords on all machines. Convenience wins hands down.

A Black Hat getting access to one and then access to all would be a bad
thing if any of the above did not apply, though...

Security is rarely black and white; it's a mass of interconnecting
tradeoffs. But sharing passwords between accounts, even accounts owned
by the same person, is a bad idea *in general*.

Regards, K.

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