Re: Debian 10 64bit
It seems to me that Jerry may have mistakenly typed a user rather than root password at the su (not sudo) prompt at least once, but also used the correct (root) password at least once.
How else could changes to /etc/sudoers (which I imagine is what is meant by "the sudouse(r) file") have been saved?
On Tue, 15 Dec 2020, at 17:34, Tixy wrote:
> 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).
>
> --
> Tixy
>
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