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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   
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