By JTL
Hi
I’m an experienced SysAdmin running Ubuntu 14.04 on a DigitalOcean droplet. I was wondering the other day how the “change root password” function in the control works in practice and if it was possible to disable it for security reasons.
Thanks.
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They can gain access without that feature too, you should secure your account with two-step authentication instead.
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