2017-11-28 21:59 GMT-02:00 Ian Sutton <i...@ce.gl>:

> This is a highly theoretical and experimental mitigation which stops the
> root password on newly upgraded/installed systems from being an empty
> string. The thinking is that by not shipping an operating system with a
> known root password, certain classes of attacks involving logging into
> the root account might be avoided. I would like some feedback from the
> cryptography team as well as NIST finalists in order to better ascertain
> the implications of this behaviour.
>


I could install a system with empty root password, but with a ssh key

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