Small improvement of the root access page documentation

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quantumquest asked Dec 26, '23

The root access documentation has some minor problems about the password:

the mentioned command "passwd –delete root" cannot be copy/pasted: the character before "delete" is a dash ("\u2013") where it should be two hyphens ("--")
this command indeed deletes the root password, but by doing so you actually allow anyone to connect without a password! You should not suggest that. The documentation seems to imply that this command will disable password login, but it's not the case.

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Answer 1 · 2024-01-09T13:16:35Z

jeroen answered · Jan 09 at 01:16 PM

Thanks, this is indeed incorrect. I changed it to:echo 'root:*' | chpasswd -e

That will allow key based authentication, but disable logging in with a password.

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