On Thu, 2018-11-15 at 14:42 +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 01:07:20PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > > Would it make sense for d-i to take responsibility for adding the ` > > --force` when setting up in `sudo`-only mode (i.e. when locking the > > root account)? > > Yes (and no?), but it might become "complicated" to actually implement > that since /etc/inittab is *not* marked as a (real) conffile.
FWIW I think d-i modifies inittab already in order to setup a getty on ttyS0 (or it did at one point, maybe no any more). > But most importantly, any changes in d-i will not help all the already > existing installs who rely on the legacy behaviour. An upgrade path > inside sysvinit still needs to handle that. Yeah, I realised that after I hit send earlier. Does the situation warrant a NEWS entry on upgrade then? > People volunteering to hack d-i are also hard to come by..... Also true. Ian.