It may be worth adding that if people rely too heavily on sudo and then sudo breaks they may discover they need the root password. There's always another way around but having the root pw in your pw database can make it easier to go home early.

    Enter root password for maintenance (Or control+D to continue)

Title: Run As The Root Account

(2008) - at least, based on first HN submission

(24 points, 32 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=307364