On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 10:59:06PM +0100, piorunz wrote: > On 05/09/2023 05:23, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > I tied su and then apt-install and that didn't > > work. > > 1. Yo logged to root incorrectly. Anyway, I suggest to never use root > account for anything. Use sudo.
That's one valid solution. Configuring su by creating an /etc/default/su file is another. There are more correct answers besides these, too. <https://wiki.debian.org/NewInBuster#Changes> has a list of some, but it's still not complete (and never will be). Be creative! I find it disheartening to call what Maureen did "incorrect", when she's just doing the standard thing that used to work for decades before Debian broke it. I would call Debian's release of a util-linux package with an unconfigured su(1) incorrect instead. But apparently the Debian maintainers don't see things the way I see them. And now it's been 3 full releases since the behavior changed, and it's still broken, so clearly Debian isn't going to fix it. That means it's up to us, the users, to fix it on all of our systems instead.