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    • Sébastien Luttringer's avatar
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      Set a default root password. · 54640304
      Sébastien Luttringer authored
      This will prevent root login with an empty password on a fresh Arch Linux
      installation.
      
      This is only about the default behaviour, you could restore the previous one by
      running `passwd -d root'.
      Please note, this is not recommended and behave inconsistenly between
      applications.
      
      We use a trick in the shadow file to set a default password which never allow
      login by using this password.
      
      The special value '*' is used in the shadow file.
      We don't use '!', '!!', '!*' on purpose.
      The special '!' char, which should mean password locked (and not account locked)
      is interpreted by some applications (e.g. sshd) as an account locked and will
      prevent root login.
      
      This change was suggested by Lennart Poettering and Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek
      to security@archlinux.org.
      54640304
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