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Re: Emergency mode when root account locked



On Sb, 12 dec 20, 13:43:09, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> On 12/12/20 11:03 am, Fabrice BAUZAC wrote:
> > Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> writes:
> > 
> > > Even if you plan to use sudo for 99% of your administrative work,
> > > there's still no reason NOT to have a root password, for those emergency
> > > situations where you need one.
> > 
> > I've had the bitter taste of it when I had to salvage a virtual machine
> > for which I had lost access to my non-root account.  You'd better have
> > the root password around.
> > 
> 
> AND run sudo as root, for additional safety

Is this supposed to be ironic? I really can't tell.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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