Bug#403778: installation-report: sudo password not specified

2006-12-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 21, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Anyways, I didn't know that one has access to man pages during installation. Is that because I'm a newbie myself? So far as I know (and I've been using and administering Linux machines for 10 years, and UNIX machines for 20 years befo

Bug#403778: installation-report: sudo password not specified

2006-12-21 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 10:28:45AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > On 12/19/06, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Max Hyre wrote: > > >> When asked whether to allow root to login, the information specifies > > >> that `sudo' will be used for rootish things, but doe

Bug#403778: installation-report: sudo password not specified

2006-12-21 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 12/21/06, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 12/19/06, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Max Hyre wrote: > >> When asked whether to allow root to login, the information specifies > >> that `sudo' will be used for rootish things, but doesn't mention that

Bug#403778: installation-report: sudo password not specified

2006-12-21 Thread Joey Hess
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 12/19/06, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Max Hyre wrote: > >> When asked whether to allow root to login, the information specifies > >> that `sudo' will be used for rootish things, but doesn't mention that > >> the password is the user's own. > > > >I would

Bug#403778: installation-report: sudo password not specified

2006-12-21 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 12/19/06, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Max Hyre wrote: > When asked whether to allow root to login, the information specifies > that `sudo' will be used for rootish things, but doesn't mention that > the password is the user's own. I would have thought that this would be obvious, sinc

Bug#403778: installation-report: sudo password not specified

2006-12-20 Thread Max Hyre
Dear Bug System: My apologies for the delay in responding. Joey Hess wrote: > Max Hyre wrote: >> When asked whether to allow root to login, the information specifies >> that `sudo' will be used for rootish things, but doesn't mention that >> the password is the user's own. > > I would have

Bug#403778: installation-report: sudo password not specified

2006-12-19 Thread Joey Hess
Max Hyre wrote: > When asked whether to allow root to login, the information specifies > that `sudo' will be used for rootish things, but doesn't mention that > the password is the user's own. I would have thought that this would be obvious, since: * When installing this way, you give the install