[Help Welcome] KVM Development - staying the course

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Not of any use for debugging. Changes that came out from Restrict root access is

Group sudo membership is required to use su (by package security-misc).

Root login within a virtual console will be disabled by default after upgrades. [10] [11]

For security reasons the root account is locked and expired by default in Whonix ™ 15.0.0.3.6 and above. For most users there should be no need to use the root account. If it must be enabled for some reason, run the following commands.

Documented here:

None of these changes should change anything related to functionality for any common workflows. Well, not only common workflows. Any workflows. Building Whonix requires none of this. I yet have to see anything that will not work due to this.

(Well, overlooking this very post Restrict root access - #67 by Patrick )

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