Adding mention of Sudo in installer

[Christoph Georgi]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 06:42:07PM -0700, Corey Burger wrote:
> 
> Feel free to suggest a text change, but our experience is that people do not
> read the dialogs, especially if they know what to expect.  As soon as the
> user realizes that they are being prompted for their password, they stop
> reading and enter it.

In that case just add a window after the user enter his password that 
asks for a root password (read on...):

+---------------------------------------------------+
|                                                   |
| ROOT PASSWORD                                     |
| The root account is disabled by default in Ubuntu |
| instead sudo is used.                             |
|                                                   |
| Please do not enter a root password here, leave   |
| it blank (or something like that):                |
|                                                   |
| +-----------------------------------------------+ |
| | <input field>                                 | |
| +-----------------------------------------------+ |
//                                                  //
|                                                   |
+---------------------------------------------------+

Those, who do not read the text, will by instinct just enter a password 
and hit 'enter'. As '<input field> != null' a message pops up saying

'The root account is disabled by default in Ubuntu, instead sudo is used 
<proceed>'

As this appears to be an error message, even the expert user will in 
most cases read it :) and the installation proceeds (or you go back to 
the 'root password' screen to check, whether they got it or not).

If a user did read the instruction and hence leaves the <input field> 
blank, he proceeds without any hassle..

This should teach some people a lesson :)

regards
.christoph


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