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Re:How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home by quicksilver03 on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @03:36AM (#25056602)
I disagree, what they do to Apache, nginx and especially Exim is very invasive and doesn't bring any actual benefit. They even had to write a program to modify the Exim configuration after they made it impossible to do it by hand.
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Re:How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home by mschuster91 on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @03:58AM (#25056732)
Regarding Apache and nginx, you're referring to the sites/mods-enabled mechanism? Actually I really like that one compared to the "stock" way of one damn yuge httpd.conf - way more maintainable, no matter if in a Docker container creation script or in a bare-metal environment with Puppet provisioning.

Regarding exim... exim is one of a nightmare no matter how one looks at it. I hate it with a passion, no matter the distro.

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