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10 days agoAn alternative, if you have console access, to doing that root password dance, is:
- Drop to rescue/emergency/single-user mode.
- Do your changes to the user account
- Drop back to multiuser mode.
An alternative, if you have console access, to doing that root password dance, is:
That server’s root access is now vulnerable to a compromise of the systems that have the private key.