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 Pancho to rbowman 
 =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_=E2=80=9CWhat_a_Linux_ro 
 21 Jan 26 20:07:17 
 
From: Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com

On 1/21/26 18:33, rbowman wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:19:35 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
>
>> The ONE root password that you need to share at least with the team if
>> not with the whole company. And then change it everytime someone leaves,
>> which will inevitably lead to people writing down the sudo password of
>> the day.
>
> At one time all the AIX and Linux boxes in the shop had the same root
> password -- wolf359.  It was a simpler time.

Back in the day...  Readable /etc/passwd, including hashed password.
Thousands of users with the same hash. Fuckwits...

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