Tools like gnome-system-tools or accountservice allow to add the user to the nopasswdlogin group. You might adopt that, to avoid the sudo breakage with empty passwords.
A description of the method: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GDM#Passwordless_login _______________________________________________ Pkg-xfce-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-xfce-devel
