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Debian, sudo, at least when ever I install it without a desktop.
edit: I'm dumb af, it tells you right in the installer, I just never read it
I read that apparently if you don't input a password for root that it apparently installs sudo. I might be wrong about this but could be worth a Google
The installer says this when it asks you to type a root password. I don't know why, but for some reason the information is both right there and easy to miss.
Please tell me that this is some brand new feature they added yesterday or smth
The option to not set a root password and instead let the regular user use sudo seems to be mentioned in the installer for the first time around 2007, so it's been there for a while.
That kinda makes sense but I never would have found it on my own.
https://www.maketecheasier.com/assets/uploads/2020/08/debian-install-set-password.png.webp
Third paragraph. I'm not trying to be a smart-ass, I also installed Debian a few times without seeing it.
Why would anyone continue reading after "you need a password for root"? You just the rest of the paragraph is gonna be ramblings about what constitutes a good password and so on. And it is exactly that and then at the very end they tell you about sudo. No wonder I always missed it.
Ill have to check and see if thats in the TUI installer too. TY
It is, they have the same text.
Classic mistake :)
