gksudo without sudo

[Tom Smith]

Agreed, partially...

I do know what I'm doing or I wouldn't have been able to configure sudo
after the installation was completed. :-D

The problem, I think, is that when one does a "basic" install (i.e.
"linux" or "server") sudo is configured by default and without prompts.
When one does an expert install (i.e. "expert" or "server-expert") sudo
is not configure--what's more is that there are no /options/ to enable
or disable it, the installer just doesn't do anything with sudo and
doesn't allow for any sudo-related options.

Ideally, to maintain some consistency between the different installation
methods, I think it would be a good thing to have sudo enable by default
regardless of the installation method chosen (basic or expert).

Billy Pollifrone wrote:

>It would appear to be an oversight as sudo/gksudo wants to be the
>'normal' way to perform admin related tasks. Not requiring you to
>install it is interesting on one hand, but you did select expert, so
>perhaps it assumes you know what you are doing. Of course, gksudo
>depends on sudo, so it should at least force it to be installed.
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>On 2/9/06, Tom Smith <tom71713-ubuntu at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>I performed an "expert" install to minimize the number of packages that
>>were installed in the "Desktop" setup. Doing so, sudo wasn't configured
>>I entered the root password.
>>The fix is simple... I just needed to add myself to sudoers and gksudo
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>>Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
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