> From: pipat...@gmail.com > To: Debian users mailing list <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > > On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 12:51 AM, Fungi4All <fungil...@protonmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sat, 2017-07-08 at 23:57 +0200, Kaj Persson wrote: >> >>>> But now I discovered an issue, I cannot manage my desktop. I have >>>> always at the previous installations, and they are quite many now, been >>>> advised to, for security reason, leave the root password unset, which >>>> causes >>>> the root account go passive, and for all tasks where I need root >>>> authority I go via su/sudo. >> >> It is a bad idea despite of what security gurus may advise. You may lose >> your system >> and never get it back. > > It's an even worse idea to listen to people on the internet who ignore > "security gurus" based on rumours. You can easily restore or change the root > password if it's lost or unset.
The last few times I remember here people saying they were running a single sudo user and no-root they had change their mind about this choice for the hustle of doing what you say it is done "easily". I don't recall you providing them with a procedure of how to do it, so why don't you do it now? You are not allowed to use the term "it depends" in your explanation :)
