sudo user

Posted Oct 14, 2025 18:11 UTC (Tue) by rschroev (subscriber, #4164)
In reply to: sudo user by PhilippWendler
Parent article: Lucky 13: a look at Debian trixie

There are ways around it, but by default you can't login in rescue mode when you didn't set a root password:

"Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked.
See sulogin(8) man page for more details."

AFAIK that's the main reason why people often recommend to set a root password.