On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 11:00:26AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > You don't really get that far if your root FS is unmountable. > > Hmm... if it truly can't be mounted, then the system can't read > `/etc/passwd` and then whether there is a root account or not makes > no difference. That's right. [...] > 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). For that, there is `rsync ... --rsync-path="sudo rsync" ...'. I do use to back up my virtual server out there, which doesn't like (heh) to have an ssh root login. Cheers - t
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