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Re: setting path for root after "sudo su" and "sudo" for Debian Bullseye (11)



On Sat 21 May 2022 at 12:24:04 +0100, Tixy wrote:

> On Fri, 2022-05-20 at 18:44 +0100, Brian wrote:
> > On Thu 19 May 2022 at 20:24:50 -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > Note, Debian (at least in the Expert Installation Mode) lets me set a Root
> > > Password.   Ubuntu doesn't, so one of my early actions after the Install is
> > > to enter "sudo su -" and, on the resulting Root Shell, type "passwd root".
> > 
> > Depends on whta you mean by "Ubuntu". Its mini.iso offers settong a root
> > password. I wonder whether the regular ISO can be preseeded?
> > 
> Don't think the mini.iso exists any more. I recently needed to install
> Ubuntu and the only options I could find where the full Gnome GUI or
> the Server install. I went for the latter with the extra crud that
> pulls in because I wanted to start from as minimal install as I could
> before adding the things I needed.

Looks like the situation on jammy (22.04) is as you say. However, not
so for focal (20.04):

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal/main/installer-amd64/current/

I downloaded the mini.iso last year and upgraded to jammy.

-- 
Brian.


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