preseed doesn't setup user in /etc/sudoers

Bug #14561 reported by Carl Karsten
6
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
shadow (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Colin Watson

Bug Description

Using these lines, only root is in /etc/sudoers. I ran debconf-get-selections
(--installer) on a box that was done with no preseed (the user was added) and
didn't anything relevent.

###### Account setup.

# To preseed the root password, you have to put it in the clear in this
# file. That is not a very good idea, use caution!
passwd passwd/root-password password rootme
passwd passwd/root-password-again password rootme

# If you want to skip creation of a normal user account.
#passwd passwd/make-user boolean false
# Alternatively, you can preseed the user's name and login.
passwd passwd/user-fullname string Joe User
passwd passwd/username string juser
# And their password, but use caution!
passwd passwd/user-password password useme
passwd passwd/user-password-again password useme

Revision history for this message
Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

This is intentional; you only get the initial user in /etc/sudoers if you don't
set the root password. If you want this behaviour even when you've set a root
password, use one of the various means provided of executing post-installation
scripts.

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