On Tue, 7 Aug 2018 12:11:50 +0100 Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 11:40:29AM +0100, Joe wrote: > >Why, I don't know, but the last time I installed stable, sudo was not > >installed by default, and never has been in my experience. I always > >add sudo and mc immediately after an installation. > > If you set a root password in d-i (as it asks you to), it doesn't > install sudo. If you try to set a blank root password, it locks the > root account, installs sudo and sets up the user you created with sudo > access. > OK, I've never tried that. I always want the option of connecting a monitor and actually logging in as root, just in case of difficulties. I believe that some boot problems are not solveable without being able to provide a root password, long before the operating system can provide su or sudo. -- Joe