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On 30/03/17 19:57, mr meowski via list wrote: > Lots of (most?) modern distros do indeed setup the intial user with > access to the sudo/wheel/admin group as required and full sudo > permissions and randomly scramble the root password. There's nothing > wrong with that until your system breaks and you're dropped at the dreaded: Check the /etc/shadow file .. there is rarely a seed in there for root, let alone a password hash ... > To answer an earlier question as well, Linux full disk encryption does > indeed transparently encrypt/decrypt all files on the fly for you, no > intervention needed. Outside of servers in racks, there's not really any > reason to NOT have it on any Linux PC that isn't bolted down these days, > including home PCs and definitely anything portable (read: nickable). > Performance overhead is virtually non-existent, even on prehistoric > hardware like netbooks or creaky old Macs. > > Cheers For the uninitiated, what should one be looking for for encrypted file-systems .. I will probably set my new Gentoo incarnation up properly if I can find the appropriate topic in the extensive wiki ... :] MJE
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