ALL Linux Distros need ROOT and SUDO passwords to be set in the installation

[kalpana]

I use Debian (Ubuntu) on most things with Mint etc. on a few other things... and one of the issues that arise is the setting up of root and sudo passwords, after the installation AND it only comes about after the need to do it arises, usually while installing specialist software, or when needing to do specific programming or editing or administrative tasks.

These settings need to be made at the very start, when installing the operating system, to save the "Oh my god - what do I do now" events down the track.

It needs to be adopted across all Linux systems - upon the install and it needs to be made known, with the installation instructions.


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As a side note - This is one of the very few postings about this entire issue. It's also from 2011 - that is 11 years old......

And technically - it's OK, but for systems operations, it's no longer good enough to NOT be able to set this up on the install, or to lack instructions on how too, with the OS...

AND having to go online and look it up and find it, - it's one of the many downfalls of the Linux coders / software makers; is that while the "good old days" where a main program was on one site and the bits that went with it were on other sites and the instructions were else where, for all the bits, these are such bad practices - and instead of 10,000 people being able to "Click = Install" of the entire program off one site, the 10,000 people have to spend hours link hopping through forums and comments and multiple websites - it's just wastes enormous amounts of everyone's time - which makes some aspects of Linux a huge time wasting pain in the neck,

This issue with setting up the passwords for SUDO and ROOT - and the failure to facilitate this right at the very start and to have the instructions with the OS in a text file, also falls into that category.

It's time for this issue to be adopted across ALL Linux variants......

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Edit by QIII: Please refer to oldfred's post below for Forum Rules regarding root and sudo.


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What makes these forums so sucky is that all the NOSEY admins and their morals and lecturing and their "You can post this, but you cannot post that" - and then editing other peoples posts - it's just like a big dysfunctional and incestious family.

It's people like you and the general rudness and bad manners and interfering with how others express themselves, is the reason why people leave and the forums become a concentration of nastiness - of the admins / moderators and their toadies.

I am leaving.