Re: Bug#690763: installation-guide: sudo and no password for root user situation
Hi,
Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
> On 07/11/2017 06:11 PM, Holger Wansing wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Baptiste Jammet <baptiste@mailoo.org> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I don't know the implementation detail of this (no root password
> >> installs sudo and allow user to use it), but I suspect that only the
> >> first user (created in the next step) will be allowed to use sudo.
> >>
> >> Maybe add something like :
> >> By default, only the first user, that will be created in the next step,
> >> will be allowed to use <command>sudo</command> to perform these
> >> administrative tasks.
> >
> > Yes, you are right, it works exactly this way.
> >
> > I have committed a change to document this clearer:
> > https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/d-i?view=revision&revision=70801
> >
>
> This thread suggests I don't know as much about "sudo" as I thought.
> To form a reasonable question I need to read the whole document with
> changes included - diffs etc just confuse me.
>
> Has this change propagated to the
> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ hierarchy?
No, that has been committed to the development branch, see
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch06s03.html#user-setup-root
Holger
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