Re: Bug#1043226: debian-installer: Please consider moving root user setup to expert install, or change text

2024-05-04 Thread Holger Wansing
With latest user-setup upload 1.97, this has been dealed with, so closing. -- Holger Wansing PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076

Bug#1043226: +1 (Re: Bug#1043226: debian-installer: Please consider moving root user setup to expert install, or change text)

2023-08-21 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 10:03:22PM +0100, Samuel Henrique wrote: > > So, many users, and especially newcomers to Debian, follow the instructions > > in the > > first line and are then surprised when they can't use sudo from their user > > from > > their newly installed system. > I've seen this

Re: Bug#1043226: debian-installer: Please consider moving root user setup to expert install, or change text

2023-08-19 Thread John Crawley
On 19/08/2023 18:42, Pascal Hambourg wrote: On 19/08/2023 at 10:28, Diederik de Haas wrote: On Monday, 7 August 2023 18:25:07 CEST Jonathan Carter wrote: Firstly, the instructions start off with "You need to set a password for 'root'", followed by seemingly uninteresting text about what a

Bug#1043226: debian-installer: Please consider moving root user setup to expert install, or change text

2023-08-19 Thread Pascal Hambourg
On 19/08/2023 at 10:28, Diederik de Haas wrote: On Monday, 7 August 2023 18:25:07 CEST Jonathan Carter wrote: Firstly, the instructions start off with "You need to set a password for 'root'", followed by seemingly uninteresting text about what a good password should be, which makes it

Bug#1043226: debian-installer: Please consider moving root user setup to expert install, or change text

2023-08-19 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Monday, 7 August 2023 18:25:07 CEST Jonathan Carter wrote: > Source: debian-installer > Version: 20230607+deb12u1 > > Firstly, the instructions start off with "You need to set a password for > 'root'", followed by seemingly uninteresting text about what a good password > should be, which makes

Bug#1043226: debian-installer: Please consider moving root user setup to expert install, or change text

2023-08-15 Thread Samuel Henrique
> So, many users, and especially newcomers to Debian, follow the instructions > in the > first line and are then surprised when they can't use sudo from their user > from > their newly installed system. I've seen this issue happening so many times. This would be a huge UX improvement for the

Bug#1043226: debian-installer: Please consider moving root user setup to expert install, or change text

2023-08-08 Thread Luna Jernberg
I agree, this was talked on in two podcast this and last month, Distrohoppers Digest from July and Linux Userspace from yesterday in August Den mån 7 aug. 2023 kl 18:27 skrev Jonathan Carter : > > Source: debian-installer > Version: 20230607+deb12u1 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > >

Bug#1043226: debian-installer: Please consider moving root user setup to expert install, or change text

2023-08-07 Thread Jonathan Carter
Source: debian-installer Version: 20230607+deb12u1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, When setting up users and passwords in debian-installer in a default install, it prompts a user to set up a root password. In d-i, this works very different than in other installers, which causes quite a bit