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Thanks for the heads up!

Thank you for your efforts Egor! looking forward to the approval of your changes. Honestly I was about to give up on Armbian / Cinnamon even though I like it. I do use a strong password upon initial startup but find using one every time I need to use sudo is a little paranoid for my use case. Will Armbian update this change automatically when the change is approved?

Sorry, but no real solution has been submitted to date. I don't really use the Pi much for this reason. I find myself on my daily driver using Thonny for working with python.

Thank you brothers for all your efforts!

Igor and Werner: Thank you so much for your replies to my post! Igor, I hate to be such a noob but when you reply "Fail 3 times." Do you mean fail to make an acceptable entry three times so that I will finally give in and enter a long and tedious "acceptable" entry in order to go on? Also you submitted a code example. Is this a patch that will allow a lesser entry? If so how do I use it? I'm willing but not much of a modern programmer. My time as a commercial programmer was spent in the 80s as a Prime Information Database programmer/administrator. Prime Information ran on a Prime minicomputer that took up a good sized room. The 300mb disk had 14" platters. Primos OS>PrimeInformation>InfoBASIC/SQL was the cutting edge at the time. My hobby machine back then was an old 4K Atari 800 with a cassette tape storage. I upgraded to 24K memory and a dual disk 88k floppy drive. Werner you are right about "a confirmation and warning" question should be sufficient. My Commercial programmer son gifted me the Raspberry Pi that I play on now learning python. I am working on a numerology program while I learn.

I'm sure the the developers intentions are good but i'm a big boy now and don't need or want someone else restricting how my passwords must be formed. One of the things that draws me to linux is the concept of freedom. Please tell me how to get around this limitation of Armbian/cinnamon on my Raspberry Pi4b. I use LMDE 5.0/cinnamon on my Intel & AMD computers and don't have this problem. I don't say his in anger. If I have to type a long password to simply use sudo then I'm not sure I want to run Armbian.