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Re: dead lock

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On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 03:00:28PM +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> 
> On 15/10/21 00:14, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > If for some reason you've forgotten the root password that you used
> > during installation, or you've lost your membership in the sudo group,
> > then you can add "init=/bin/bash" to the kernel parameters in GRUB,
> > re-mount the root file system read/write, run the "passwd root" command
> > to set a new root password, and then reboot again.
> 
> 
> Good afternoon
> 
> My experience is that if you chose a root passwd at installation, sudo is
> NOT installed.

Correct.  I believe that in my earlier message, I said that sudo is
installed only if you choose to leave the root password blank.  If not,
then I at least implied it.

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dead lock Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com> - 2021-10-14 15:00 +0200
  Re: dead lock Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-14 15:20 +0200
    Re: dead lock Keith Bainbridge <keithrbaugroups@gmail.com> - 2021-10-16 06:10 +0200
      Re: dead lock Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-16 15:40 +0200
        Re: dead lock Keith Bainbridge <keithrbaugroups@gmail.com> - 2021-10-17 09:00 +0200
  Re: dead lock Peter Ehlert <pb21a@sdi-baja.com> - 2021-10-14 15:40 +0200
    security of debian default sudoers file (was: dead lock) Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> - 2021-10-17 11:50 +0200
      Re: security of debian default sudoers file (was: dead lock) Keith Bainbridge <keithrbaugroups@gmail.com> - 2021-10-17 12:20 +0200
  Re: dead lock Stanislav Vlasov <stanislav.v.v@gmail.com> - 2021-10-14 16:30 +0200

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