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Re: Bug#344873: should be a way to get a sudo-only root system



Il giorno mar, 27/12/2005 alle 19.24 +0100, Christian Perrier ha
scritto:
> Quoting Joey Hess (joeyh@debian.org):
> > Package: user-setup
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > There should be a way, ideally a debconf question that is preseedable
> > and available at low priority, to get a system that has the root account
> > locked and has the user account set up to be able to get root with sudo.
> > (As seen in Ubuntu.)
> 
> I agree. I think this is a very useful feature in Ubuntu.
> 
> Instead of a preseedable question, we could setup a sudo account when
> the root password is set to NULL.
> 
> I suggest we implement as much as possible from Ubuntu patches to
> shadow config scripts.....
> 
I suggest to warn the user of what is appening after he/she entered a blank
password for root, so he/she can go back, enter a password for root and
continue the usall way.

Just my 2¢
Stefano

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