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Re: [OT]: possible spyware?



On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 03:01:02PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2008/6/22 H.S. <hs.samix@gmail.com>:
> > So looks like in Ubuntu root login via SSH is not disabled. But IIRC root
> > account itself is disabled in Ubuntu. So this warning also is benign ...
> > looks like.
> >
> 
> The root account in Ubuntu is not disabled. It is given a random
> password at install, but that password can be changed with a simple
> sudo passwd.

Maybe it changed, but there used to be no password for the root 
account...

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

no, it hasn't changed.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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