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Re: [LUG] Security Thoughts
- To: "list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Brad Rogers <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [LUG] Security Thoughts
- From: mr meowski via list <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 19:34:10 +0000
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- Thread-topic: [LUG] Security Thoughts
On 30/03/17 20:21, Brad Rogers via list wrote:
> Yes, that was poorly expressed. The user will exist, as you go on to
> explain. I should, probably, have said something like "....usable root
> user...."
>
> My apologies.
Definitely not worth an apology!
Root is always there, just "not normally made visible to the enduser" is
the clarification I guess we're looking for here. MacOS requires
specifically enabling the root account and Plan9 genuinely doesn't have
one, but all other *nix systems rely utterly on the UID 0 account to
function. I personally recommend making sure you know the password for
the "god account", even if you never plan on using it.
Cheers
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