Il 19/12/2015 14:55, Gene Heskett ha scritto: > Your idea of the word majority is miss-applied in the modern linux world. > Root password usage is pretty well deprecated by most distro's today, > using sudo instead, even in wheezy which is considered elderly these > days. The method suggested by Rolf Schmidt to overcome your problem demonstrates that it's something as unsafe as can be imagined. Anybody can get root privileges without a password. Letting any user do anything just by typing sudo before a command is a rather peculiar way of implementing security, be it the old Wheezy, or the newer Ubuntu (and its siblings). Just my 2 c. Giuliano