Hello,
I guess I missed something very evident, however I just do not understand why when I create a jail using ezjail why by default it created with a passwordless root account (vipw = "root::")?
On my logic, since this account will usually been access from an
I checked in my system to confirm that a wheel user can indeed
Can someone explain me why this password is not disabled by default? What did motivate this choice?
Thank you by advance for your answers,
Regards,
I guess I missed something very evident, however I just do not understand why when I create a jail using ezjail why by default it created with a passwordless root account (vipw = "root::")?
On my logic, since this account will usually been access from an
ezjail console
command, I would have guessed it is created with a disabled password by default (vipw = "root:*:").I checked in my system to confirm that a wheel user can indeed
su
without password, and I also checked on ezjail official webpage (the one stating "ezjail is about making this as easy as possible") that there were no step urging the user to set or disable root account password.Can someone explain me why this password is not disabled by default? What did motivate this choice?
Thank you by advance for your answers,
Regards,