please deactivate services by default!

[Matthew Woehlke]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> Ok. Eh, so I'm confused, an account with "no" password just cannot be 
>> logged into at all, I thought? (Except via methods that wouldn't use 
>> password authentication, e.g. key-based authentication as mentioned 
>> above, 'su' as root...) I wouldn't expect an ssh setting for that, I'd 
>> expect it to simply be denied :-).
> 
> It is not just root. The default user has no password in the live cd 
> either.

I guess I am confused. Ubuntu disables root, I thought by giving no 
password to root. The livecd obviously should have "no password", but 
does that mean unset, or empty? (If unset, does unset have a different 
effect on root than normal accounts?)

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