diff --git a/base.yml b/base.yml
index 85ffbb65..ef10d368 100755
--- a/base.yml
+++ b/base.yml
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
     - sudo
     - ntp-client
     - crans-scripts
+    - root-config
 
 # Deploy LDAP replica
 - hosts: odlyd.adm.crans.org,soyouz.adm.crans.org,fy.adm.crans.org,thot.adm.crans.org
diff --git a/roles/root-config/tasks/main.yml b/roles/root-config/tasks/main.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0a8bb1ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/root-config/tasks/main.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+- name: Create or rewrite .nanorc for root
+  template:
+    src: nanorc.j2
+    dest: /root/.nanorc
diff --git a/roles/root-config/templates/nanorc.j2 b/roles/root-config/templates/nanorc.j2
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d6c3b174
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/root-config/templates/nanorc.j2
@@ -0,0 +1,309 @@
+{{ ansible_header | comment }}
+##
+## Sample initialization file for GNU nano.
+##
+## Please note that you must have configured nano with --enable-nanorc
+## for this file to be read!  Also note that this file should not be in
+## DOS or Mac format, and that characters specially interpreted by the
+## shell should not be escaped here.
+##
+## To make sure a value is disabled, use "unset <option>".
+##
+## For the options that take parameters, the default value is given.
+## Other options are unset by default.
+##
+## Quotes inside string parameters don't have to be escaped with
+## backslashes.  The last double quote in the string will be treated as
+## its end.  For example, for the "brackets" option, ""')>]}" will match
+## ", ', ), >, ], and }.
+
+## Use auto-indentation.
+ set autoindent
+
+## Backup files to filename~.
+# set backup
+
+## The directory to put unique backup files in.
+# set backupdir ""
+
+## Do backwards searches by default.
+# set backwards
+
+## Use bold text instead of reverse video text.
+# set boldtext
+
+## The characters treated as closing brackets when justifying
+## paragraphs.  They cannot contain blank characters.  Only closing
+## punctuation, optionally followed by closing brackets, can end
+## sentences.
+##
+# set brackets ""')>]}"
+
+## Do case sensitive searches by default.
+# set casesensitive
+
+## Constantly display the cursor position in the statusbar.  Note that
+## this overrides "quickblank".
+# set const
+
+## Use cut to end of line by default.
+# set cut
+
+## Set the line length for wrapping text and justifying paragraphs.
+## If fill is 0 or less, the line length will be the screen width less
+## this number.
+##
+# set fill -8
+
+## Enable ~/.nano_history for saving and reading search/replace strings.
+set historylog
+
+## The opening and closing brackets that can be found by bracket
+## searches.  They cannot contain blank characters.  The former set must
+## come before the latter set, and both must be in the same order.
+##
+# set matchbrackets "(<[{)>]}"
+
+## Use the blank line below the titlebar as extra editing space.
+set morespace
+
+## Enable mouse support, if available for your system.  When enabled,
+## mouse clicks can be used to place the cursor, set the mark (with a
+## double click), and execute shortcuts.  The mouse will work in the X
+## Window System, and on the console when gpm is running.
+##
+# set mouse
+
+## Allow multiple file buffers (inserting a file will put it into a
+## separate buffer).  You must have configured with --enable-multibuffer
+## for this to work.
+##
+# set multibuffer
+
+## Don't convert files from DOS/Mac format.
+# set noconvert
+
+## Don't follow symlinks when writing files.
+# set nofollow
+
+## Don't display the helpful shortcut lists at the bottom of the screen.
+# set nohelp
+
+## Don't add newlines to the ends of files.
+# set nonewlines
+
+## Don't wrap text at all.
+set nowrap
+
+## Set operating directory.  nano will not read or write files outside
+## this directory and its subdirectories.  Also, the current directory
+## is changed to here, so any files are inserted from this dir.  A blank
+## string means the operating directory feature is turned off.
+##
+# set operatingdir ""
+
+## Remember the cursor position in each file for the next editing session
+set positionlog
+
+## Preserve the XON and XOFF keys (^Q and ^S).
+# set preserve
+
+## The characters treated as closing punctuation when justifying
+## paragraphs.  They cannot contain blank characters.  Only closing
+## punctuation, optionally followed by closing brackets, can end
+## sentences.
+##
+# set punct "!.?"
+
+## Do quick statusbar blanking.  Statusbar messages will disappear after
+## 1 keystroke instead of 26.  Note that "const" overrides this.
+##
+# set quickblank
+
+## The email-quote string, used to justify email-quoted paragraphs.
+## This is an extended regular expression if your system supports them,
+## otherwise a literal string.  Default:
+# set quotestr "^([ 	]*[#:>\|}])+"
+## if you have extended regular expression support, otherwise:
+# set quotestr "> "
+
+## Fix Backspace/Delete confusion problem.
+# set rebinddelete
+
+## Fix numeric keypad key confusion problem.
+# set rebindkeypad
+
+## Do extended regular expression searches by default.
+# set regexp
+
+## Make the Home key smarter.  When Home is pressed anywhere but at the
+## very beginning of non-whitespace characters on a line, the cursor
+## will jump to that beginning (either forwards or backwards).  If the
+## cursor is already at that position, it will jump to the true
+## beginning of the line.
+# set smarthome
+
+## Use smooth scrolling as the default.
+# set smooth
+
+## Use this spelling checker instead of the internal one.  This option
+## does not properly have a default value.
+##
+# set speller "aspell -x -c"
+
+## Allow nano to be suspended.
+set suspend
+
+## Use this tab size instead of the default; it must be greater than 0.
+set tabsize 4
+
+## Convert typed tabs to spaces.
+set tabstospaces
+
+## Save automatically on exit, don't prompt.
+# set tempfile
+
+## Disallow file modification.  Why would you want this in an rcfile? ;)
+# set view
+
+## The two single-column characters used to display the first characters
+## of tabs and spaces.  187 in ISO 8859-1 (0000BB in Unicode) and 183 in
+## ISO-8859-1 (0000B7 in Unicode) seem to be good values for these.
+# set whitespace "  "
+
+## Detect word boundaries more accurately by treating punctuation
+## characters as parts of words.
+# set wordbounds
+
+## Enable the new (EXPERIMENTAL) generic undo code, not just for line cuts
+# set undo
+
+## Enable soft line wrapping (AKA full line display)
+# set softwrap
+
+## Color of the different blocs of nano --vulcain 14/07/2020
+set titlecolor brightwhite,red
+set statuscolor brightwhite
+set numbercolor magenta
+set keycolor white
+
+## Color setup
+##
+## Format:
+##
+## syntax "short description" ["filename regex" ...]
+##
+## The "none" syntax is reserved; specifying it on the command line is
+## the same as not having a syntax at all.  The "default" syntax is
+## special: it takes no filename regexes, and applies to files that
+## don't match any other syntax's filename regexes.
+##
+## color foreground,background "regex" ["regex"...]
+## or
+## icolor foreground,background "regex" ["regex"...]
+##
+## "color" will do case sensitive matches, while "icolor" will do case
+## insensitive matches.
+##
+## Valid colors: white, black, red, blue, green, yellow, magenta, cyan.
+## For foreground colors, you may use the prefix "bright" to get a
+## stronger highlight.
+##
+## To use multi-line regexes, use the start="regex" end="regex"
+## [start="regex" end="regex"...] format.
+##
+## If your system supports transparency, not specifying a background
+## color will use a transparent color.  If you don't want this, be sure
+## to set the background color to black or white.
+##
+## If you wish, you may put your syntaxes in separate files.  You can
+## make use of such files (which can only include "syntax", "color", and
+## "icolor" commands) as follows:
+##
+## include "/path/to/syntax_file.nanorc"
+##
+## Unless otherwise noted, the name of the syntax file (without the
+## ".nanorc" extension) should be the same as the "short description"
+## name inside that file.  These names are kept fairly short to make
+## them easier to remember and faster to type using nano's -Y option.
+##
+## All regexes should be extended regular expressions.
+
+## Key bindings
+## Please see nanorc(5) for more details on this
+##
+## Here are some samples to get you going
+##
+# bind M-W nowrap main
+# bind M-A casesens search
+# bind ^S research main
+
+## Set this if your backspace key sends delete most of the time (2.1.3+)
+# bind kdel backspace all
+
+
+## Nanorc files
+include "/usr/share/nano/nanorc.nanorc"
+
+## C/C++
+include "/usr/share/nano/c.nanorc"
+
+## Cascading Style Sheets
+include "/usr/share/nano/css.nanorc"
+
+## Debian files
+include "/usr/share/nano/debian.nanorc"
+
+## Gentoo files
+include "/usr/share/nano/gentoo.nanorc"
+
+## HTML
+include "/usr/share/nano/html.nanorc"
+
+## PHP
+include "/usr/share/nano/php.nanorc"
+
+## TCL
+include "/usr/share/nano/tcl.nanorc"
+
+## TeX
+include "/usr/share/nano/tex.nanorc"
+
+## Quoted emails (under e.g. mutt)
+include "/usr/share/nano/mutt.nanorc"
+
+## Patch files
+include "/usr/share/nano/patch.nanorc"
+
+## Manpages
+include "/usr/share/nano/man.nanorc"
+
+## Groff
+include "/usr/share/nano/groff.nanorc"
+
+## Perl
+include "/usr/share/nano/perl.nanorc"
+
+## Python
+include "/usr/local/share/nano/python.nanorc"
+
+## Ruby
+include "/usr/share/nano/ruby.nanorc"
+
+## Java
+include "/usr/share/nano/java.nanorc"
+
+## AWK
+include "/usr/share/nano/awk.nanorc"
+
+## Assembler
+include "/usr/share/nano/asm.nanorc"
+
+## Bourne shell scripts
+include "/usr/share/nano/sh.nanorc"
+
+## POV-Ray
+include "/usr/share/nano/pov.nanorc"
+
+## XML-type files
+include "/usr/share/nano/xml.nanorc"