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   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to Pancho   
   Re: =?UTF-8?B?4oCcNw==?= deprecated Linu   
   21 Jan 26 04:17:49   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:32:29 +0000, Pancho wrote:   
      
   > AIUI, modern security advice is to not have an interactive root   
   > account, i.e. with a password.   
      
   An interactive account doesn’t have to have a password.   
      
   Even if you configure a root password, you can configure SSH to   
   specifically disallow using it for remote access.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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