On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 09:07:58AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > In Debian's default configuration members of group 'sudo' have sudo > access, so all you need is: > > adduser my_user_name sudo (and then log out and back in) > As far as I know the installer does the equivalent of that. If you enter an empty root password, yes, I've been told that it does. If you enter a non-empty root password, then it doesn't.