Re: Debian 10 user accounts

2019-05-24 Thread Francisco M Neto
On Thu, 2019-05-23 at 20:07 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Thu 23 May 2019 at 18:47:48 +0100, Paul Sutton wrote: > Is this how it is meant to do things, or have I missed a step > > somewhere ? > > Being obliged to use sudo? No. I feel I should point out, though, that there are a number of advan

Re: Debian 10 user accounts

2019-05-23 Thread Brian
On Thu 23 May 2019 at 11:13:36 -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote: > that would be with the Calamares Installer? No. Paul Sutton would have mentioned it if it was. > I Hate it! Thanks for letting us know. [...] > the Calamares Installer is a real thorn in my side... end of rant ;-) I am sure Paul Sut

Re: Debian 10 user accounts

2019-05-23 Thread Brian
On Thu 23 May 2019 at 18:47:48 +0100, Paul Sutton wrote: > Just installing Debian 10 rc 1.  Ditto. i386 netinst. Expert installation. > With regard to user accounts I am asked > for credentials for the account I want to log in with.  However I don't > appear to

Re: Debian 10 user accounts

2019-05-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Paul Sutton (2019-05-23 19:47:48) > Just installing Debian 10 rc 1.  With regard to user accounts I am > asked for credentials for the account I want to log in with.  However > I don't appear to be asked for information to set up a root account. > > is Debian 10 now using sudo to allow u

Re: Debian 10 user accounts

2019-05-23 Thread Peter Ehlert
that would be with the Calamares Installer? I Hate it! also it mounts all system swap partitions, nor does it read or write partition labels. I don't understand how to fix the Sudo issue, I can't even log in as root. this something that Linux Mint also does, I forget how to fix it. on my other m