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Accounts

User Purpose
gewis uid 1000, no password, runs the desktop session. Created by the service-PC module
cbc Administrator, in wheel, password from the cbcPassword secret. Created by gewis.admin

wheelNeedsPassword is off.

gewis has no password at all. GDM's autologin never consults pam_unix for authentication, so logging the session in does not need one, and an empty password would leave the account open to anyone reaching a TTY.

sshd allows password authentication for cbc and refuses root outright. It is not opened globally: port 22 is allowed on the booth LAN interface and on the NetBird mesh, nowhere else. The ed25519 host key is persisted, so the key a client has pinned stays valid across reboots.