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What?
Some new Debian users, usually coming from Ubuntu, are shocked by problems like "sudo not working in Debian".
default debian config isn't enabling sudo for created users
(and that's a good choice imo)
but you can of course use "su -" and just switch to root propperly
if you do not provide a root password during install, the default user is in sudoer.
I know.
but since there's that field in the install wizard, asking you for that password, I'd guess most people will provide one.m?