Hi, Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> (2013-06-11): > Control: reassign -1 user-setup > > On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 06:06:24PM +0200, ashka wrote: > > Although sudo is installed, the main/default user is not added to the > > sudo group after install, which leads to errors when trying to run a > > sudo command. The user has to use su to get root access, which is > > unexpected since sudo is installed. > > I'm reassigning to the user-setup package; that's where this happens > in the installer. well, the root password prompt contains: | The root user should not have an empty password. If you leave this | empty, the root account will be disabled and the system's initial user | account will be given the power to become root using the "sudo" | command. I don't think it was intended to give sudo access to the first user if a root password has been specified. Should we reconsider the current behaviour? Mraw, KiBi.
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