On Thursday 04 September 2014 21.34:50 Chris Graham wrote: > How to be root in Ubuntu: > > As user, open shell and do >> sudo passwd root. (...) On Friday 05 September 2014 01.07:49 Dan Youngquist wrote: > Or go to Trinity Control Center / System Administration / Login Manager / > Convenience, Administrator Mode, and check Allow Root Login. (...) Thanks to both,,, but that was not what I was looking for. What I was looking for was to make a *buntu work like a "normal" Debian and ask for the *root* password instead of the *user* password. Funnily, I could not find an answer to this directly. I found people letting their user use sudo without password (!), or answers about setting the root password and the root account. I knew about sudo passwd root and how to be able to log as root (which I very seldom use). After much reading and using this Deepin install to test and try, I think I've found: - create the root password as Chris wrote - Follow Dan's suggestion if you want - add this to sudoers: "Defaults rootpw" Funny enough, once you've found that and search for "Default rootpw" you find a lot of interresting stuff, includind requiring the user to use his wn password for specific commands... So it was probably me not searching the right way :) Linux is real fun (and TDE rules) :)) Have a great day! Thierry