Hey guys,
a short note an “successful installation”. I did everything I could to make sure that an installation either ends with the full set of working programs or in a clearly identifiable failure state.
At the end of the setup process you should see the green RPi LED blinking in a heartbeat like rythm (☼.☼…☼.☼…) and the openHABian logo on ssh login. The failure state is observable in a fast blinking of the LED (☼.☼.☼.☼.☼.☼.) and a failure text on ssh login.
If the setup was not successful please try again. There are a few reasons why one installation could fail (repository unavailable, internet connection outages,…) but don’t worry. I did not run into that problem once in all my testings.
@jaydee73 are you still seeing that problem? I did not quite understand how you observed the problem but I just did a new setup on my RPi1 and everything seems to be just fine…
@RHINESEL Happy to hear you are happy with the result. Scott already did a good writeup on sudo. I do not see a problem in extending the sudo re-authenticate time but disabling a first password prompt is a big security risk and should not be a default setting. I referenced a link on how to disable the prompt a few comments above but would really not recommend it for a couple of reasons… of course the whole topic is pointless as long as 95% of Raspberry Pi users never change the password to something other than “raspberry” 
On permissions: You do not have to give ownership to openhab for openHAB to work actually. openHAB does not write to these files and in normal case they will be readable by “others”, which includes openhab. HOWEVER: if you are using samba, you are going to be working as user openhab and thereby probably want to have write access.
So yes, out of a maybe different reason, you want to make sure all config files belong to openhab.
“openHABian” is by the way not an existing linux user 