On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 4:03 AM, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun 18 Aug 2013 at 03:12:39 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
>
>> But debian's installer tries to encourage the user to not enable root,
>
> No, it doesn't.
Perhaps you would rather I said something like, it gives the option to
establish an initial account and tells the person performing the
install
if root login is enabled,
the initial account will not be an admin account,
but if root login is disabled,
the initial account will be a member of the sudo group
and thus an admin account,
and, by the way, you might prefer to not enable root login.
Is that closer to what the installer does in your opinion?
Other than issues of order and timing, the entire dialog not being
present on any one screen, it seems pretty close to what I remember it
telling me when I switched this netbook from Fedora 17 to Wheezy last
week. Which was a little different from what the Squeeze installer did
when I installed Squeeze on the tower about a year and a half ago.
--
Joel Rees