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In the last episode, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: |
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BS> |
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BS> Personally, I use Kubuntu on my laptop and have never had a reason to |
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BS> change root's password from the default. Even on my Gentoo desktop, I |
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use BS> sudo (and my user password) 100x more often than su/login and the |
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root BS> password. |
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BS> |
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BS> The choice to not ask for root's password during installation was amde |
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for BS> good reason. One less question makes the installation easier and |
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faster, BS> and providing the randomized password + sudo access increases or |
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at least BS> does not decrease security afforded by the "old" Debian way |
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(which ends up BS> prompting for two passwords; each twice). |
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BS> |
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It is also possible to use sudo by passing it the root password - I myself do |
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this, and it is more secure. |
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Jeff |
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence |
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over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. |
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Richard Phillips Feynman, American physicist, 11/5/18-15/2/88 |
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