On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 10:53 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 07 dec 20, 15:35:16, Tixy wrote: > > On Mon, 2020-12-07 at 10:11 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > [...] > > > Another thing to keep in mind is that you might forget your root > > > password if you don't use it once in a while. > > > > For machines that are personal, single user machines, it just makes > > sense to me to use the same password for root as the user. After > > all, > > the root account isn't really protecting anything additional that > > the > > user cares about. > > I'm guessing you are referring to this: > > https://xkcd.com/1200/
Something like that, except I never use hibernate and my disk is encrypted, so hopefully if someone steals my computer they don't get anything but the hardware :-) Also, so I only have one thing to remember my disk encryption passphrase is also my user and root account password, and I have system set to automatically login to my account at boot so just have to enter the passphrase once. -- Tixy
