Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> writes: > Even if you plan to use sudo for 99% of your administrative work, > there's still no reason NOT to have a root password, for those emergency > situations where you need one. I've had the bitter taste of it when I had to salvage a virtual machine for which I had lost access to my non-root account. You'd better have the root password around.