Once upon a time, Ben Cotton <bcot...@redhat.com> said: > Further, this change of defaults complements the default for root > account. The redesign of root setup screen in Fedora 35 makes it clear > that root should be left locked.
So, not directly related to the proposal, but jumping in here because it goes with the above statement - the "root should be left locked" setup is a problem that keeps single-user mode broken. I tried to follow the Fedora (and other distros) default of root being a locked account, and then found that it's a broken setup. I was changing some disk config and made a typo in /etc/fstab, so filesystems wouldn't mount on boot. The boot process stopped and prompted for the (non-existant) root password. The only way to proceed at that point is to bypass the normal init (remember to load SELinux policy manually or face a full relabel, which is irritating) and set a root password. This IMHO should have been addressed before making "root account locked" a default. At a minimum, you shouldn't be prompted for a password that doesn't exist. It used to be possible to edit the sulogin options to add --force (so that a locked root account bypassed the password request), but then systemd removed that. -- Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
