On 03/05/2018 08:05 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
You can always give root a password if this disturbs you, but it
immediately closes off the whole "I log in as root all the time" issue
that plagues naive users on home systems, and also closes off the whole
"ssh in as root on a shiny new system which accepts
root-login-with-password".
You shouldn't ever need to log in as root under a GUI, but it does allow
you to log in at a CLI console as root if you need to.