Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Ok. Eh, so I'm confused, an account with "no" password just cannot be
> logged into at all, I thought? (Except via methods that wouldn't use
> password authentication, e.g. key-based authentication as mentioned
> above, 'su' as root...) I wouldn't expect an ssh setting for that,
I'd
> expect it to simply be denied :-).
It is not just root. The default user has no password in the live cd
either.
I guess I am confused. Ubuntu disables root, I thought by giving no
password to root. The livecd obviously should have "no password", but
does that mean unset, or empty? (If unset, does unset have a different
effect on root than normal accounts?)
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