Help - forced to change my root password

[TkeVi]

Describe the issue you are having.

After a full system upgrade of Arch under UserLand I'm getting the following message when I try to login:

/data/user/0/tech.ula/files/support/dbclient: Caution, skipping hostkey check for localhost

vitke@localhost's password:
You are required to change your password immediately (administrator enforced).
Changing password for root.
Current password:

su: Authentication failure

I was accomplishing everything with sudo so I don't remember the root password. Now sudo does not work and I see that "which sudo" points to a shell script in /usr/local/bin/sudo. I tried removing it but it gets created again. Strangely, it echoes passwords on the screen. If I run /sbin/sudo, it says

sudo: Account or password is expired, reset your password and try again

Is there a way to get my root access again?

Describe how your task behaves in a regular Linux environment

N/A

[TkeVi]

chage -l root shows that I never changed my root password. So what is the default root password?

[TkeVi]

I found it. it's "root".