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.
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- mdz
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