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From: Gaz Wilson (dragon_at_dragons.org.uk)
Date: Thu 12 May 2005 - 19:43:26 BST


Does anyone have an opinion as to whether disabling root's password
within a vserver is worthwhile? Noone logs into a vserver as root
via ssh, only from the master using vserver enter, so there's no point
in having a root password, so it can be disabled by adding *LCK* in the
passwd file on the vserver? Would this break anything (cron etc)

Or is it better to set it to something rediculously long, so that
anyone obtaining the password file by whatever means could spend a long
time trying to crack a useless password?

Just a random thought on my way home today ;)

Gaz

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