On Wed 16 Dec 2020 at 16:00:08 -0600, David Wright 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:
>
> > > > > 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.
Neither do I have a DE, but we all have access to the task-desktop
changelog:
tasksel (3.44) unstable; urgency=medium
[ nicoo ]
* Team upload.
* Add myself as uploader.
* task-desktop
- Depend on libu2f-udev. (Closes: #891472)
- Depend on sudo. (Closes: #773550)
-- nicoo <ni...@debian.org> Wed, 23 May 2018 23:56:54 +0200
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Brian.
