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Subject: Re: Here there be Dragons!
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 10:11:27 -1000
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On 2/3/19 6:59 PM, Jack Woehr wrote:

So we see that *there are only two ways* on such a system by which to go root:

1. Login as root *through the console* (physical access or direct VM access)

I'm pretty sure that, If root has no password, then the only way to get root
access is via sudo _or_ reboot the machine into single user mode and have
physical access to the console.

david

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