Adding mention of Sudo in installer

[Corey Burger]

n 4/14/05, Christoph Georgi <christoph.georgi at web.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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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Hmm, that is a suboptimal solution in my books. Introduces an unneeded
step. that will only confuse novices.

Corey