On 12/16/20 2:09 AM, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
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.
Keith BAINBRIDGE
I have done many installs recently, several machines, but am occupied
this morning.
I believe the installation goes exactly as described in the manual, but
there are always some details that don't fit.
https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.installation-steps.html#id-1.7.12.10
best of luck next time
ke1thozgro...@gmx.com
Sent from my Aphone
On 15 December 2020 7:01:32 pm UTC, Brian <a...@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:
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.)
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.
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
invalidate
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.
