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2 years agoIf you install Debian yourself, it asks you to set a root password. If you don’t provide one, it disables root and enables sudo.
Of course, if you’re running Debian provided by a cloud provider, it’s however they set it up for you.
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If you install Debian yourself, it asks you to set a root password. If you don’t provide one, it disables root and enables sudo.
Of course, if you’re running Debian provided by a cloud provider, it’s however they set it up for you.


It should be a serious red flag that your VPS host is generating root passwords simple enough to get quickly hacked.


Although disabling the root user is a good part of security, leaving it enabled should not alone cause you to get compromised. If it did, you were either running a very old version of OpenSSH with a known flaw, or, your chosen root password was very simple.

This summary is useless, and doesn’t even make sense. Can we please ban this kind of AI shit here.
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