upgrade form debian sarge problems!

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Mon Sep 20 01:07:44 UTC 2004


On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 08:22:13PM -0400, Dave Miller wrote:

> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> >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).

Currently we don't make any attempt to provide an equivalent desktop
experience on upgrade; the user won't even have (e.g.) gnome-system-tools
installed.

However, I am collecting bugs like these as dependencies of #1436; please
file one for this issue.

-- 
 - mdz




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