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At the risk of jumping in blindly here, Ubuntu desktop installs default to no root password.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Woehr [mailto:jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2019 2:18 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Here there be Dragons!
It's not usual that root doesn't have a password.
What's usual is that sshd.conf is by default set up to forbid root to login via ssh.
Then sudo, with its marvellous self-documenting sudoers.conf file, is the only path to root aside from sitting down at the console (or getting at the virtual console of the virtual machine, as the case may be).
In the *su - hidden - behind - sudo* scenario, abilities are limited to a mysterious group of users with very specific authorities, which is somewhat more difficult to get around than merely guessing the root password.
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