Authentication failure??

[Markus Schönhaber]

andy baxter wrote:

> What are the reasons for doing it this way? If sudo is set up so you can 
> do everything through it, how is this different / less risky in practice 
> from having a normal root account with a separate password? (Apart from 
> there being one less password to remember).

Discussed probably a gazillion times.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

If you don't like this approach, simply set a root password.

Regards
  mks