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author | Holger Wansing <holgerw@debian.org> | 2017-07-03 18:23:19 +0000 |
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committer | Holger Wansing <holgerw@debian.org> | 2017-07-03 18:23:19 +0000 |
commit | edff821c387e7af2cdb53c8ddec641fb9f14f358 (patch) | |
tree | 12258ff9f08a45972869ff9c5c0ef1cdce7ca0ab | |
parent | b05877848ad6feb7def4ebcd6bd2a95ddfc6bff1 (diff) | |
download | installation-guide-edff821c387e7af2cdb53c8ddec641fb9f14f358.zip |
Document the installation of sudo, if no root password is given.
This was already documented in the installation-howto chapter with
r68416, here I add the very similar text to the main document too.
Closes #692314.
-rw-r--r-- | debian/changelog | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | en/using-d-i/modules/user-setup.xml | 7 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 38ccae4bc..0edab0980 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ installation-guide (2017XXXX) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium format. Closes: #344693 * Globally use S/390 instead of s390 for consistency. Closes: #366380. * Document 255 characters limit for kernel command line. Closes: #397592. + * Document the installation of sudo, if no root password is given. + Closes: #692314 -- Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2017 01:17:02 +0200 diff --git a/en/using-d-i/modules/user-setup.xml b/en/using-d-i/modules/user-setup.xml index fa2a7d63c..3bd97d5a9 100644 --- a/en/using-d-i/modules/user-setup.xml +++ b/en/using-d-i/modules/user-setup.xml @@ -28,6 +28,13 @@ If anyone ever tells you they need your root password, be extremely wary. You should normally never give your root password out, unless you are administering a machine with more than one system administrator. +</para><para> + +In case you do not specify a password for the <quote>root</quote> user +here, this account will be disabled but the <command>sudo</command> package +will be installed later to enable administrative tasks to be carried out on +the new system. + </para> </sect3> |