sudo user

Posted Aug 20, 2025 14:11 UTC (Wed) by jzb (editor, #7867)
In reply to: sudo user by rschroev
Parent article: Lucky 13: a look at Debian trixie

Ah, appears there is text for it and I missed it. Thanks!

sudo user

Posted Aug 20, 2025 14:17 UTC (Wed) by rschroev (subscriber, #4164) [Link] (1 responses)

I failed to notice that text as well for a long time, until a comment I saw somewhere made me look better the next time I installed Debian (I tend to install Debian quite regularly in VMs for testing stuff in isolation).

sudo user

Posted Aug 21, 2025 11:40 UTC (Thu) by Karellen (subscriber, #67644) [Link]

Yeah, I think I missed that for ages too, as it came after 2 or 3 previous walls of text which effectively say "make sure you set a strong password for root". At that point, I was mostly thinking "yes, I know, and I get it, set a strong password for root! Can we get to the input box where I type that in now, please?", and missed that the last one says "actually, you can just use an empty password and we'll do something different! (lol)"