Public bug reported:
OK it doesn't really force it, but it appears to:
You need to set a password for 'root', the system administrative
account. A malicious or unqualified user with root access can have
disastrous results, so you should take care to choose a root password
that is not easy to guess. It should not be a word found in dictionaries,
or a word that could be easily associated with you.
.
A good password will contain a mixture of letters, numbers and punctuation
and should be changed at regular intervals.
.
Note that you will not be able to see the password as you type it.
If you enter an empty password, it seems to fall back to ubuntu-ish
behavior and use sudo, but I fell for the instructions and entered a
root password. This dialog should either be removed or reworded. The
problem occurs if I run dpkg-reconfigure passwd or dpkg-reconfigure -a.
** Affects: shadow (Ubuntu)
Importance: Untriaged
Status: Unconfirmed
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dpkg-reconfigure forces setting of root password
https://launchpad.net/bugs/61088
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