On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 07:13:48AM -0400, Lee Winter wrote: > Got a dell 5400 workstation configured fully (8 cores, 32gb RAM, 160gb fast > disk & 1.0tb slow disk) and I netinstalled debian Bookworm 12.10.0 on it. > I also got the 20 DVDs with 92.5gb of Source packages. The machine seems > OK, but I am finding some [problem]s. > > [A1] is that netinstall left /etc/sudoers missing and /etc/sudoers.d/README > empty -- there are no users at all. But that README file contains a strong > recommendation for using visudo, which no longer exists. >
Hi Lee, When you originally set up the system, did you input a password for root? If you *didn't* set up a root user / left the root user with a blank password, then sudo should be installed and configured for the first user to use sudo. If not, then there's maybe a bug. If you reboot via rescue mode, you can set a password for root. If you don't wish to do this, then you may be able to drop to a root shell and install sudo Visudo is installed with the sudo package. If that install fails for whatever reason, then you won't have visudo. Hope this helps, Andy (amaca...@debian.org) > [A2] is that visudo is missing even though lots of doc still insists that > it be should be used. I even looked for it in my SOURCE packages and with > apt install. But I found nothing. > > url = " > https://blog.usro.net/2024/11/how-to-build-a-debian-package-from-source-a-step-by-step-guide > " > > [B] is that the doc in the url above wants to apt install some thing called > linti. But in reality there is no such thing. > > [C] is that same doc in the url above wants to apt install source > <package_name>. So it wants to get a new copy of the source package. But > I already have a copy; i just need to know where to put it? > > How should I report these problems?
