Re: password set at installation of debian-10.10.0-amd64 not recognized
On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 11:00:26AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Of course, the existence of a root password can occasionally be handy
> for things like `rsync` (strictly speaking, you can probably arrange
> for rsync to first log in as a normal user and then use `sudo`, but
> it requires a fair bit of fiddling, IIRC).
You'll generally want to set things up so that direct root logins
require key authentication, not password auth. (And *definitely* not
some shell/Expect botch involving feeding a password to sudo after a
non-root login. That's simply terrible.)
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