On Tue 07 Aug 2018 at 08:07:56 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > I'm fairly sure that when I did (some of) my existing installs - which, > to be fair, was years and years ago - sudo came with the system, even > though I didn't even consider the concept of setting the machine up with > no root password. Maybe this has changed at some point.
sudo was optional even in buzz (1.1): Package: sudo priority: optional section: admin maintainer: Michael Meskes <mes...@debian.org> version: 1.4.2-2 AFAICT No Root Password arrived with wheezy (7). Cheers, David.