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|    21 Jan 26 11:56:50    |
      From: marrgol@address.invalid              On 2026-01-21 at 10:58 The Natural Philosopher 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       >       > I am not sure that duplicates roots environment exactly.              'sudo -i' does.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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