Not only are root accounts themselves disabled by default, but it’s also highly recommended that any methods of remote and local login to root are disabled. It’s literally the most basic hardening step you can do for any Linux setup.
My VPS gets hit by tens of thousands of attempts to SSH into root every single day. My fail2ban jail for ssh alone get so absurdly large that it fills my remote terminal, and that’s not even including the fact that I ban by CIDR blocks, not individual IP, so I have hundreds of IPs blocked for a single fail2ban entry.
None of those attempts are actually successful as I’ve completely disabled password authentication and logins to root. The last thing I would want on my phone is full, unadulterated root access for that reason alone.
Not only are root accounts themselves disabled by default, but it’s also highly recommended that any methods of remote and local login to root are disabled. It’s literally the most basic hardening step you can do for any Linux setup.
My VPS gets hit by tens of thousands of attempts to SSH into root every single day. My fail2ban jail for ssh alone get so absurdly large that it fills my remote terminal, and that’s not even including the fact that I ban by CIDR blocks, not individual IP, so I have hundreds of IPs blocked for a single fail2ban entry.
None of those attempts are actually successful as I’ve completely disabled password authentication and logins to root. The last thing I would want on my phone is full, unadulterated root access for that reason alone.