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If you're doing admin on the machine you might not want to disallow root login.
by simias 8y ago
If you're doing admin on the machine you might not want to disallow root login.
- protomyth 8y agoUse sudo or doas.
- exikyut 8y agoI once set up a Slackware-based recovery partition on a USB HDD, and configured it so I could SSH to the machine, as root, with no password. (Took a bit of doing, too. OpenSSH is well built.) This HDD was only ever used for recovery. Incidentally I only ever used it at home, on a LAN that only has devices I know about on it. In a work environment I'd only ever do the same running off an isolated lab switch. But in certain situations, "login to the box as root w/ no pw" is awesome for rapid bringup/diagnosis/repair/whatever.