Re: Please, don't let sudo be auto-removable

[Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk>]

On 30/07/2025 18:36, William Edwards wrote:
> If you need sudo, why not just apt-mark manual it?

Does anyone know if the installer does this if the administrator doesn't 
set a root password?

There's an argument that sudo should refuse to uninstall itself (e.g. in 
a prerm script) if the root user doesn't have a password at all. That 
would be a neat trick.

> William David Edwards
>
> > Op 30 jul 2025 om 19:30 heeft José Esteban <chafar@chafar.net> het volgende geschreven:
> >
> > I'I've written to sudo package maintainer, but he suggests me to
> > report that here and so I do. This is in my /var/log/apt/history.log:
> >
> > Start-Date: 2025-07-30  08:29:54
> > Commandline: apt-get purge cloud-guest-utils
> > Requested-By: chafar (1000)
> > Purge: cloud-guest-utils:amd64 (0.33-1)
> > End-Date: 2025-07-30  08:29:54
> >
> > Start-Date: 2025-07-30  08:30:13
> > Commandline: apt-get purge cloud-init
> > Requested-By: chafar (1000)
> > Purge: cloud-init:amd64 (22.4.2-1+deb12u2)
> > End-Date: 2025-07-30  08:30:14
> >
> > Start-Date: 2025-07-30  08:30:22
> > Commandline: apt-get autoremove
> > Requested-By: chafar (1000)
> > Remove: python3-blinker:amd64 (1.5-1), python-babel-localedata:amd64 (2.10.3-1), python3-webcolors:amd64 (1.11.1-1), libxaw7:amd64 (2:1.0.14-1), python3-importlib-metadata:amd64 (4.12.0-1), libeatmydata1:amd64 (130-2+b1), python3-jsonpatch:amd64 (1.32-2), python3-more-itertools:amd64 (8.10.0-2), python3-attr:amd64 (22.2.0-1), gdisk:amd64 (1.0.9-2.1), python3-babel:amd64 (2.10.3-1), python3-jsonschema:amd64 (4.10.3-1), python3-oauthlib:amd64 (3.2.2-1), python3-json-pointer:amd64 (2.3-2), python3-jinja2:amd64 (3.1.2-1+deb12u2), python3-serial:amd64 (3.5-1.1), python3-netifaces:amd64 (0.11.0-2+b1), python3-uritemplate:amd64 (4.1.1-2), python3-markupsafe:amd64 (2.1.2-1+b1), python3-jwt:amd64 (2.6.0-1), eatmydata:amd64 (130-2), python3-yaml:amd64 (6.0-3+b2), sudo:amd64 (1.9.13p3-1+deb12u1), python3-rfc3987:amd64 (1.3.8-2), python3-pyrsistent:amd64 (0.18.1-1+b3), python3-zipp:amd64 (1.0.0-6)
> > End-Date: 2025-07-30  08:30:24
> >
> > ... sudo gets inadvertently removed within a lot of python3 packages !!!
> >
> > who remembers the root password ?
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > --
> > José Esteban
> > 034 - 607507781

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