Re: Doc: Correct and extend infos about LilyDev setup (issue 561360043 by address@hidden)

[michael . kaeppler]

On 2020/01/29 15:36:59, fedelogy wrote:
> LGTM
> 
> Just two thoughts:
> 
> 1. I'm not sure why you suggest how to set the root password, as the
dev user
> can get admin privileges via sudo.

Well, I just thought that it would be bad idea for >any< Linux system 
to leave the root password unsetted. Maybe the amount of damage that
can occur to the host system through the virtualization barrier is
small,
but at least it minimizes the risk of scrambling your guest system by
accident. If you use 'sudo', you have to think about what you type, at
least. 
AFAIK, Ubuntu disables the root account by default, for such reasons.
But you could argue that the docs suggest to log in as 'dev', anyway,
and if I do want to log in as root, it does not matter if I have to use
a password or none. 
What do you think about disabling the root account?

> 
> 2. While keyboard configuration is a step needed for any non-US
contributor,
> reconfiguring the locales should be useful only for translators,
unless I miss
> something.
> 
> Perhaps you could say that these two configurations are optional.

One benefit is to have the window manager and the output of localized 
tools in your own language. But that's not essential, I admit.
But I noticed that umlauts are not displayed correctly without
configuring the locales. Or am I missing some simpler solution here?





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