Bug#403778: installation-report: sudo password not specified

2006-12-21 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 12/19/06, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Max Hyre wrote: When asked whether to allow root to login, the information specifies that `sudo' will be used for rootish things, but doesn't mention that the password is the user's own. I would have thought that this would be obvious, since:

Bug#403778: installation-report: sudo password not specified

2006-12-21 Thread Joey Hess
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 12/19/06, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Max Hyre wrote: When asked whether to allow root to login, the information specifies that `sudo' will be used for rootish things, but doesn't mention that the password is the user's own. I would have thought

Bug#403778: installation-report: sudo password not specified

2006-12-21 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 12/21/06, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 12/19/06, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Max Hyre wrote: When asked whether to allow root to login, the information specifies that `sudo' will be used for rootish things, but doesn't mention that the

Bug#403778: installation-report: sudo password not specified

2006-12-21 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 10:28:45AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 12/19/06, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Max Hyre wrote: When asked whether to allow root to login, the information specifies that `sudo' will be used for rootish things, but doesn't mention

Bug#403778: installation-report: sudo password not specified

2006-12-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 21, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Anyways, I didn't know that one has access to man pages during installation. Is that because I'm a newbie myself? So far as I know (and I've been using and administering Linux machines for 10 years, and UNIX machines for 20 years

Bug#403778: installation-report: sudo password not specified

2006-12-20 Thread Max Hyre
Dear Bug System: My apologies for the delay in responding. Joey Hess wrote: Max Hyre wrote: When asked whether to allow root to login, the information specifies that `sudo' will be used for rootish things, but doesn't mention that the password is the user's own. I would have thought

Bug#403778: installation-report: sudo password not specified

2006-12-19 Thread Joey Hess
Max Hyre wrote: When asked whether to allow root to login, the information specifies that `sudo' will be used for rootish things, but doesn't mention that the password is the user's own. I would have thought that this would be obvious, since: * When installing this way, you give the installer