upgrade form debian sarge problems!

[Dave Miller]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 11:57:40PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> 
>>On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 01:47:56PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 12:20:19AM +0800, hantsy bai wrote:
>>>
>>>>I upgrade Ubuntu from debian sarge directly...There is some problems for
>>>>me...
>>>>1.the account "root" is not disabled...
>>>
>>>You meant that it _is_ disabled, yes?
>>
>>Not on upgrade. It would be most unfriendly of us to disable the root
>>account on upgrade, so we don't.
> 
> Of course.  But it shouldn't be a problem for it not to be disabled, should
> it?

It is if you don't add someone to sudoers.

All the admin utilities prompt for sudo access, rather than su, now.  If 
we don't add anyone to sudoers on an upgrade (which we don't, 
currently), then they can't admin anymore (at least not from the GUI).

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  - justdave