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From: Bodo Eggert (7eggert_at_gmx.de)
Date: Thu 12 May 2005 - 21:42:37 BST


On Thu, 12 May 2005, Gaz Wilson wrote:

>
> 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)

IMO only interactive logins are supposed to be affected, but sometimes
there are programs not being interested in my opinion. Just create a test
vserver and try it, it's too late here to do that myself.

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