I dislike sudo intensely. My first job when installing any distro without a root password is to give root a password, and from then on I use 'su -' I have a sp

I dislike sudo intensely. My first job when installing any distro without a root password is to give root a password, and from then on I use 'su -' I have a special 'goroot' script which launches an xterm in a white-on-black color-scheme and requires the root password, as distinct from my normal-user xterm script which launches xterm in a black-on-white color-scheme. Oh, how long?? 9 characters.