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:
> > > > 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. (Already refuted.) > > 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. Not until root configures it, (which *could* involve adding users to the sudo group). > > (This does make me > > wonder why 'sudo' is recommended by task-desktop in the first place.) I can't answer that as I don't run any DE. > 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. It would appear that you don't understand any other manner in which sudo can be configured besides just bestowing on a user the power of %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL with membership of the sudo group. It takes man sudoers over 2400 lines to describe its flexibility. Cheers, David.
