Running Alpine? You sure? Are your containers running Alpine? If so, pretty good chance anyone can log in via SSH.

accounts that should never take a password at all (root, your key-only deploy user, ldap users, the default user on alpine’s aws and azure images) take any password longer than 256 characters.

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    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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    Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
    LXC Linux Containers
    SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access

    3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.

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