Re: user is not in the suder's file

2025-02-06 Thread Jeremy Bícha
On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM Sam Hartman wrote: > Someone reached out and expressed what for them is a serious blocking > problem in a forum where their question is as far as I can tell > appropriate. > > And you took the time to rant about the installer, but not to actually > spend the 30 secon

Re: user is not in the suder's file

2025-02-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
K0LNY ??, le mer. 05 févr. 2025 18:26:35 -0600, a ecrit: > Also worth considering, We might not want to join yet another list from > which we may not often need to seek information from. I don't think debian-user is a has-to-be-subscribed-to-post list? Samuel

Re: user is not in the suder's file

2025-02-05 Thread K0LNY ??
nesday, February 5, 2025 6:13 PM Subject: Re: user is not in the suder's file Sam Hartman, le mar. 04 févr. 2025 18:03:14 -0700, a ecrit: > >>>>> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Bícha writes: > > > Jeremy> On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM K0LNY ?? > > wr

Re: user is not in the suder's file

2025-02-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Andrew M.A. Cater, le mer. 05 févr. 2025 13:00:59 +, a ecrit: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 06:03:14PM -0700, Sam Hartman wrote: > > Okay, so I don't really understand why we let debian-accessibility be a > > user support list, unlike all the other lists besides debian-user. > > But we do. > > As

Re: user is not in the suder's file

2025-02-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sam Hartman, le mar. 04 févr. 2025 18:03:14 -0700, a ecrit: > > "Jeremy" == Jeremy Bícha writes: > > > Jeremy> On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM K0LNY ?? wrote: > > >> So, I guess I made the mistake in the install to set a password > > >> for root. > > > > Jeremy> Personally, I believe that the

Root, sudo and installing packages [WAS Re: user is not in the suder's file]

2025-02-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
[Follow-up suggested to the mailing list at debian-u...@lists.debian.org] On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 11:50:44AM -0600, K0LNY ?? wrote: > Hi Andrew, > How is Debian different with regard to apparently there not being a problem > installing things as root? > I know that there are issues if some packag

Re: user is not in the suder's file

2025-02-05 Thread K0LNY ??
To: Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2025 6:07 AM Subject: Re: user is not in the suder's file On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 05:14:31PM -0600, K0LNY ?? wrote: > Hi All, > First off, if you say this not accessibility related, then screw you! > I just installed Debian, and I have to use Debian

Re: user is not in the suder's file

2025-02-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 06:03:14PM -0700, Sam Hartman wrote: > > Okay, so I don't really understand why we let debian-accessibility be a > user support list, unlike all the other lists besides debian-user. > But we do. As someone who spends a *lot* of time on debian-user helping sort problems: I'

Re: user is not in the suder's file

2025-02-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 05:14:31PM -0600, K0LNY ?? wrote: > Hi All, > First off, if you say this not accessibility related, then screw you! > I just installed Debian, and I have to use Debian on my Asus 701, because > that is the only 32 bit Linux package I know of that is kept up to date. Hi Gle

Re: user is not in the suder's file

2025-02-04 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Bícha writes: Jeremy> On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM K0LNY ?? wrote: >> So, I guess I made the mistake in the install to set a password >> for root. Jeremy> Personally, I believe that the "root password" part of the Jeremy> installer should be demote

Re: user is not in the suder's file

2025-02-04 Thread Jeremy Bícha
On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM K0LNY ?? wrote: > So, I guess I made the mistake in the install to set a password for root. Personally, I believe that the "root password" part of the installer should be demoted to one of the more advanced pages. There are many pages in the installer that do not sh