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to: A. DUMAS
from: MARTIN GREGORIE
date: 2019-02-07 22:17:00
subject: Re: Recover password

On Thu, 07 Feb 2019 20:35:35 +0000, A. Dumas wrote:

> Martin Gregorie  wrote:
>> Mine was like that when I first bought it, but upgrading to either
>> jessie or stretch fixed sudo so it requires a password like all
>> sensible Unices.
>> I forget which one it was that introduced the change.
>>
>> How come your RPi still doesn't require a password for sudo?
>
> You changed it, because Raspbian didn't change.

Not that I remember, but I DO remember being moderately surprised when it
started asking for a password. Almost as much when I discovered that
Raspbian, alone of all the various Unices I've used, didn't require a
password for sudo.


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