I was not offered to set a root passwd during the last 2 Buster installs I did. Admittedly, with mateDE and MAYBE that makes a difference. Who's going to try it to prove the point? It'll be several days before I can. Will do if I don't see somebody beat me to it.I have done many installs recently, several machines, but am occupied this morning.
Keith BAINBRIDGE
https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.installation-steps.html#id-1.7.12.10
best of luck next time
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On 15 December 2020 7:01:32 pm UTC, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:On Tue 15 Dec 2020 at 19:33:53 +0100, john doe wrote:On 12/15/2020 6:34 PM, Tixy wrote:You are being obtuse. d-i does not install sudo unless it is requested. That's the only point at issue. It is the only thing that matters. Why Mate chooses to install sudo is a different issue. It does not invalidateOn Tue, 2020-12-15 at 11:36 +0100, john doe wrote:Or at the very least, if sudo is installed having it configured with the user added to the sudo group regardless of if a root password is set.On 12/15/2020 10:19 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: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.)On Lu, 14 dec 20, 19:45:54, Jerry Mellon wrote:That doesn't look to be the case anymore, I just installed Buster with Mate and sudo is installed.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.The Debian Installer will configure 'sudo' for the first user only if you leave the root password blank. This is explained during the install.What a particular package does has no bearing on the design of d-i's base system.-- Brian.