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authorHolger Wansing <holgerw@debian.org>2017-07-03 18:23:19 +0000
committerHolger Wansing <holgerw@debian.org>2017-07-03 18:23:19 +0000
commitedff821c387e7af2cdb53c8ddec641fb9f14f358 (patch)
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parentb05877848ad6feb7def4ebcd6bd2a95ddfc6bff1 (diff)
downloadinstallation-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.
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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>