On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Levi Bard wrote:
>> I set root up as usual, su/sudo to do whatever, but others say root
>> shouldn't have a password. I have yet to see how you could have root with
>> no password, and at the same time avoid a security hole you could drive a
>> truck through.
>
> Root with no password meaning that root can't log in, not that
> everybody can log in as root.
If user X can do things as root without supplying the root password (because
there is none) but rather his own (which he can set to whatever), then the
root account is no more secure than X's account.
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