Bug#797563: installation-reports: Non-free install with disabled root user, sudo command not found

[Caleb Burns <cpburnz@gmail.com>]

Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I used the "debian-live-8.1.0-amd64-standard+nonfree.iso" image to install Debian. During installation, I chose no root password in order to disable root login. My understanding is that this option should install and enable "sudo" privileges for the non-root user created in the next step of the installation process.

After installation and login with the non-root user, I cannot run "sudo". It fails with the message:

    -bash: sudo: command not found

This indicates that "sudo" was not installed. I then tried "su" to attempt change to the root user. I tried both entering no password, and entering the user password. Both of these failed with:

    su: Authentication failure

Which is to be expected because no password was set for root.

I reinstalled debian a second time without a root login, but the issue remained. I believe this is an installation error with setting up users.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)