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|    Pancho to The Natural Philosopher    |
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|    21 Jan 26 08:58:20    |
      From: Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com              On 1/21/26 04:16, The Natural Philosopher wrote:       > On 21/01/2026 00:32, Pancho wrote:       >> My concern was about having a root account.       >>       >> AIUI, modern security advice is to not have an interactive root       >> account, i.e. with a password. So being a good boy, I don't. Whether       >> this strategy is practical in the real world is unclear to me.       >       > I always enable one.       >       > Sometimes when there is an emergency you need not to have to type 'sudo'       > to edit every file...              sudo bash              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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