On Sat, 2022-07-23 at 18:18 -0700, stan via users wrote: > The new installs, from what I understand, do not set up a root > account password as part of the install process.
I installed Fedora 36 not long ago, Mate spin. There was an opportunity to set up root while the install was going on. I always do. It's far more convenient for me to open a terminal and "su -" so I can do a mass of text editing setting up servers, than sudo each thing (*). I don't do graphical logins as root, so I have no idea if that still works. I might be editing several DNS zone records, a DHCP server config, restarting the servers, checking things worked, stopping servers, doing tweaks, rinse lather repeat. I'm damned if I want to be typing my lengthy password for each instance of that. If I was forced to sudo every one of those, the password would end up being shortened to something easier to type. That's more of a security problem in my book. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.71.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 28 15:37:28 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-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/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
