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Can we start to use Ubuntu, into the main administrator (Root) account, without to have to enter the password?

I know it is intended for security reasons, but... Please! I'm just a church musician and I don't have any kind of "Top Secret" and/or hidden material into this device. Also, I'm the only one which uses this PC, so...

Do I really need that "password way" to enter to my PC?

Whatever, if there is a way to "jump" the password, Please! Let me know!

The screen I get from the "Users & Groups" system configuration menu is:

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Juan
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You can't log in to the root account (well, normally), nor should you. Please don't override this security precaution.

If you just want to log in without having any sort of password authentication, that is very easily available to you. If you go to System Settings and click on User Accounts, you'll have this screen displayed to you:

Simply make sure Automatic Login is turned on, and your system will always automatically log you in.

If you're talking about bypassing the need for a sudo password, that is still doable but less of a good idea. In a single-user environment, sudo is primarily a "sanity check" to add some resistance to any action that could be potentially dangerous or make your system not work as well. Or, in other words, it's the "Yeah, I'm sure about what I'm doing" command. That, and if you disable sudo password enforcement, you open a rather broad attack vector to malware and the like.

If you still want to do this, simply open a terminal and type sudo visudo. From there, add this line to the User privilege specification section:

<your user> ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL

Be sure to replace <your user> with your username on the computer.

Kaz Wolfe
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