Adding mention of Sudo in installer

[Martin Pitt]

Hi!

Christoph Georgi [2005-04-15 15:04 +1200]:
> +---------------------------------------------------+
> |                                                   |
> | 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):                |

This sounds rather odd to me. I think we shouldn't add uneccessary
screens to the installer, and even less screens that will confuse half
of our users.

I think we should rather modify su, gdm, etc. to check whether root
actually has a password set (this can be done in a suid root program)
and print a meaningful message ("The root account password is disable,
please use sudo...") when attempting to log in as root.

Martin

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