Re: Debian 10 64bit

[Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2020-12-15 at 11:36 +0100, john doe wrote:
> On 12/15/2020 10:19 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > On Lu, 14 dec 20, 19:45:54, Jerry Mellon wrote:
> > > I finally got around to installing debian 10 on my 64bit system(thus
> > > removing the i386version I had originally instaled). The install went
> > > well and I asked for a seperate Home particion. When I booted the system
> > > and try to do "apt-get update and apt-get upgrade" using "sudo" it would
> > > not let me do that. Said I was not a sudo user. I then tried "su root"
> > > which failed as well as it said I was not a sudo user. I went to the
> > > sudouse file and changed it to make me a user. Sudo as myself worked
> > > fine but su root still did not work.
> > > 
> > > After seeing the email concering problems with sudo and su root I
> > > decided to reload. I did but did a use whole disk (no home part).
> > > After booting I did have to go to the sudouser file an change it again
> > > but the su root worked with out a problem.
> > 
> > You probably set a root password during install.
> > 
> > The Debian Installer will configure 'sudo' for the first user only if
> > you leave the root password blank. This is explained during the install.
> 
> That doesn't look to be the case anymore, I just installed Buster with
> Mate and sudo is installed.

Because sudo is a recommended package of task-desktop, which is a
dependency of task-mate-desktop. But if you gave it a root password
during install then it didn't add the user you created at install time
into the 'sudo' group, so no user can use sudo. (This does make me
wonder why 'sudo' is recommended by task-desktop in the first place.)

I installed Bullseye LXDE yesterday, with recommended packages
disabled, and didn't get sudo installed (because I gave a root password
during install).

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Tixy