Bug#403778: installation-report: sudo password not specified

["Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang@gmail.com>]

On 12/21/06, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > On 12/19/06, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> > >Max Hyre wrote:
> > >> When asked whether to allow root to login, the information specifies
> > >> that `sudo' will be used for rootish things, but doesn't mention that
> > >> the password is the user's own.
> > >
> > >I would have thought that this would be obvious, since:
> > >
> > >* When installing this way, you give the installer only one password.
> >
> > Not so obvious to a newbie installer...
> > >* It's documented on sudo's man page as the default behavior of sudo.
> >
> > out of question...
> >
>
> This option is only available to people who have booted the installer
> with "expert". I have limited patience for people who think they are
> experts and are not familiar with man pages.

Me not trying to cause any conflict, but newbies often learn a lot by
fiddling, and a small note on the installer on how sudo works won't
hurt (it will actually help such a newbie before he gets a small
headache and runs off to some "user-friendly" distro)...

Anyways, I didn't know that one has access to man pages during
installation. Is that because I'm a newbie myself?