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Yeah default users are fine, but the basic architecture of Linux (and, to my knowledge, all operating systems) means that there’s no meaningful way to create a user without creating a password, so you can’t have a default user without a default password.



On the contrary - when you create a user using useradd, it initially has no password, and so cannot log in.




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