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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Debian, sudo, at least when ever I install it without a desktop.

edit: I'm dumb af, it tells you right in the installer, I just never read it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I read that apparently if you don't input a password for root that it apparently installs sudo. I might be wrong about this but could be worth a Google

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The installer says this when it asks you to type a root password. I don't know why, but for some reason the information is both right there and easy to miss.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please tell me that this is some brand new feature they added yesterday or smth

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The option to not set a root password and instead let the regular user use sudo seems to be mentioned in the installer for the first time around 2007, so it's been there for a while.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That kinda makes sense but I never would have found it on my own.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

https://www.maketecheasier.com/assets/uploads/2020/08/debian-install-set-password.png.webp

Third paragraph. I'm not trying to be a smart-ass, I also installed Debian a few times without seeing it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Why would anyone continue reading after "you need a password for root"? You just the rest of the paragraph is gonna be ramblings about what constitutes a good password and so on. And it is exactly that and then at the very end they tell you about sudo. No wonder I always missed it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ill have to check and see if thats in the TUI installer too. TY

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It is, they have the same text.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Classic mistake :)