On Sat, 20 Jul 2019, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> > sudo passwd root
>
> If he had sudo access, why would he need or want a root password?
a root password, rather than mediated 'sudo' access is needed
from time to time
Before the system is up and recognizing, to do fsck' and such
which require the root password to be executed, comes to mind
-- Russ herrold