Dennis Lee Bieber  wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 13:47:46 +0000, Chris Elvidge 
> declaimed the following:
>
>
> >
> >ssh into it. Are you root? No?
> >sudo su -
> >You're now root!
> >passwd
> >to reset the root password
>
>         NOTE: for security, it is considered better not to have a root
password
> at all, requiring one to log in as a regular user and rely upon sudo to
> gain root privileges temporarily.
>
It's less for security surely than to provide auditing information
which will show *who* was using root privilege.

On a single user system it doesn't really add anything, there's only
'me' going to be root.

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Chris Green
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