March 26th, 2026 - Continuation of the Exploration of Debian Sid

It's currently 09:13 right now, and I ran a /sbin/reboot now on the Debian Sid computer after finding out it's done upgrading from Debian Trixie to Debian Sid. Immediately, at startup, I am greeted with the banner, which is usually located in the /etc/issue file, "Debian GNU/Linux forky/sid debian-sid tty1". Yes, the machine is named debian-sid, and I am using the tty. So, yeah. One thing I have noticed about this banner is how it confuses forky with sid.

Later that day, I installed sudo on my system. As to why I had to install sudo, it's exactly what I said in yesterday's blog, the bare bones Debian installation didn't come with sudo. And I felt like it was just a convenience not to have to use su root everytime I want to get something done that needs extra priviledges. However, even after I installed sudo, my user, which I have strangely named sid, could not access sudo because it was not in the sudo group. You may think to just run usermod -aG sid sudo as root, but, as I have said before, this is a bare bones installation. So, even usermod wasn't installed by default. I didn't want to do this, but I left with the only option to edit /etc/group file directly.