On Wed 16 Dec 2020 at 10:09:44 (+0000), Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> I was not offered to set a root passwd during the last 2 Buster installs I
> did. Admittedly, with mateDE and MAYBE that makes a difference. Who's going
> to try it to prove the point? It'll be several days before I can. Will do if
> I don't see somebody beat me to it.
It takes about two minutes to get to these screens, which follow
the shadow passwords question:
┌──────────────────┤ [?] Set up users and passwords ├──────────────────┐
│ │
│ If you choose not to allow root to log in, then a user account will │
│ be created and given the power to become root using the 'sudo' │
│ command. │
│ │
│ Allow login as root? │
│ │
│ <Go Back> <Yes> <No> │
│ │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
(Yes was selected.)
┌──────────────────┤ [!!] Set up users and passwords ├──────────────────┐
│ │
│ You need to set a password for 'root', the system administrative │
│ account. A malicious or unqualified user with root access can have │
│ disastrous results, so you should take care to choose a root password │
│ that is not easy to guess. It should not be a word found in │
│ dictionaries, or a word that could be easily associated with you. │
│ │
│ A good password will contain a mixture of letters, numbers and │
│ punctuation and should be changed at regular intervals. │
│ │
│ The root user should not have an empty password. If you leave this │
│ empty, the root account will be disabled and the system's initial │
│ user account will be given the power to become root using the "sudo" │
│ command. │
│ │
│ Note that you will not be able to see the password as you type it. │
│ │
│ Root password: │
│ │
│ _____________________________________________________________________ │
│ │
│ [ ] Show Password in Clear │
│ │
│ <Go Back> <Continue> │
│ │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Selecting MATE is irrelevant, because that decision is only made
many steps further on, as indicated here:
[…]
│ Configure the network │
→ │ Set up users and passwords │
│ Configure the clock │
│ Detect disks │
│ Partition disks │
│ Install the base system │
│ Configure the package manager │
→ │ Select and install software │
│ Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk │
[…]
If required by your answers above, sudo will be installed
automatically during the "finish-install" step. Obviously
it may also get installed as a dependency of some software you
selected at an earlier stage.
Cheers,
David.
