Bug#637453: lower priority of root's password, use sudo in standard install

2011-08-12 Thread Christian PERRIER
+1 on both remarks by Colin (not agreeing with sudo by defaultand the fact that the remark about Ubuntu wasn't appropriate). Still, Miguel, thanks for raising these questions again. Sometimes, conditions change and, at least, re-asking ourselves whether choices made some years ago are still

Bug#637453: lower priority of root's password, use sudo in standard install

2011-08-11 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
Package: user-setup Version: 1.40 Tags: wishlist, patch Setting the root account password is not mandatory in standard installation, skipping it already adds the first user account to sudo. Lowering the priority skips 2 questions in the standard installation. The questions will still be

Bug#637453: lower priority of root's password, use sudo in standard install

2011-08-11 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 04:56:39PM +0100, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: Package: user-setup Version: 1.40 Tags: wishlist, patch Setting the root account password is not mandatory in standard installation, skipping it already adds the first user account to sudo. Lowering the priority skips 2

Bug#637453: lower priority of root's password, use sudo in standard install

2011-08-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:07:04AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 04:56:39PM +0100, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: Setting the root account password is not mandatory in standard installation, skipping it already adds the first user account to sudo. Lowering the