On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 10:01:48AM -0600, Ian Melnick wrote: > > > Now when you log in as root, it will not ask for a password. > > excuse my rudeness but isnt that a Bad Thing? > > > > what about ssh? does that leave the box totaly open? > > Well, you could edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and not allow root logins at > all. Log in as a regular user and then su root from there. > > Question, though. I thought when you boot into single-user mode you're > already root and you can just change the root password by running > passwd. Is it different now? no, your right. I was a little off-topic for the thread. I was going on about laptop security [ie passwording grub] wheras the original thread was about how to change root password. So the shadow magik for removing root password is fine for that as leaving the root acount passwordless was never intended as long term.
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