Re: user is not in the suder's file

[Jeremy Bícha <jeremy.bicha@canonical.com>]

On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM K0LNY ?? <glenn@ervin.email> wrote:
> So, I guess I made the mistake in the install to set a password for root.

Personally, I believe that the "root password" part of the installer
should be demoted to one of the more advanced pages. There are many
pages in the installer that do not show by default.

Ubuntu has always given sudo power to the initial user and disabled
root login by default. The Ubuntu developers consider this security
hardening since logs are more likely to show which specific user was
doing root stuff instead of an anonymous root user on a multiuser
system. Fedora works like Ubuntu.

I don't think I have the time and energy to try to push for that
change before the Trixie release. What seems like an obvious
improvement to me is likely to be seen as an unnecessary removal of a
feature by the installer maintainers. (If it was obvious, they
probably would have made the change years ago!) That's not saying that
things can't change, even long-established things. But it often takes
work and social skill.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha