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   marrgol to All   
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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.   
      
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