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>root is a real user Is this uncommon enough to need specifying? I've heard something along the lines of Ubuntu having no actual root user for security reasons
by ivanbakel 9y ago
>root is a real user
Is this uncommon enough to need specifying? I've heard something along the lines of Ubuntu having no actual root user for security reasons, but I got no impression that this was a common approach. If root isn't a real user, what are your options when your main user is compromised?
- hedora 9y agoIt is considered poor practice on Linux to set a password for the root account. This is not the case on OpenBSD. You can usually login by editing the grub kernel command line, and setting init=/bin/sh Disk encryption may or may not make account recovery more complicated.
- digi_owl 9y agoF if i know where this idea came from, though i guess it may be an OSX import...