Is it safe to remove all user passwords except root?

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Is it safe to remove all passwords (passwd -d) from users, including service users like apache, bind, and others, and keep only the root password? I suspect that a malicious user may have set a password on one of these users pass later access.









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      Is it safe to remove all passwords (passwd -d) from users, including service users like apache, bind, and others, and keep only the root password? I suspect that a malicious user may have set a password on one of these users pass later access.







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