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[Jason Shaw]

This is the exact reasoning I gave for needing to know root passwords at a
recent job interview where the current admin said he didn't remember the
last time he typed a root password.

-jason

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 02:09:14PM -0800, E K wrote:
> > That is funny but true! Particularly, the last one.
> >
> > Well, I use 'sudo bash' which is effectively is equivalent to su. Too
> lazy to assign a password to root:-) Also, a system without root password is
> a little more secure than one with root password.
>
> And how do you deal with 'you need to run fsck manually, please enter
> root password to continue'?
>
> sudo only is a nice theory, but no more than that.
>
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