Re: How to gain control over the system?

[Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 12:51 AM, Fungi4All <fungilife@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.