On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 01:07:20PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > Would it make sense for d-i to take responsibility for adding the ` > --force` when setting up in `sudo`-only mode (i.e. when locking the > root account)?
Yes (and no?), but it might become "complicated" to actually implement that since /etc/inittab is *not* marked as a (real) conffile. I'm not sure if the homegrown way of handling that helps or makes it more complicated. Atleast d-i would need to handle modifying /etc/inittab after sysvinit postinst has run AIUI. It might also make it more complicated to make changes in sysvinit (eg. make it a real conffile in the future and drop the homegrown stuff) without breaking things. But most importantly, any changes in d-i will not help all the already existing installs who rely on the legacy behaviour. An upgrade path inside sysvinit still needs to handle that. People volunteering to hack d-i are also hard to come by..... Regards, Andreas Henriksson
