On 05.05.19 17:16, Gene Heskett wrote: > You have made it very clear not to assign a pw to root, do everything > with sudo.
That's just religion, Gene, promulgated to minimise queries and complaints from people getting themselves into trouble. Like vaccination, it only needs 95% coverage to provide herd immunity. To avoid having to fuss with getting the sudo thing to actually work here, I still do a "su -" in a spare xterm, and leave the root session open for a while, till the current problem is sorted. To remind that more than ordinary user care is warranted in that xterm, in the event of leaving it open beyond short term memory, I put this in /root/.bashrc export PS1="\[\033[1;31m\]\u@\h:\W\$ \[\033[0;0m\]" to make root's prompt red, and declare itself as root. It takes more than a generalisation to alter my habits of more than 30 years. My take is: Use what works best for you, especially if you accept the consequences without complaint. But I figure I'm treading a parallel path to yours there. Erik
