On 4/25/2025 8:48 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 4/25/25 6:27 PM, home user via users wrote:
securing this workstation: part 2.
The login screen has 2 named users:
1. a user that Anaconda had me create.
2. "Super User", which I did ***not*** create.
Then there's something else below those that I can use to log in as
root.
What is "Super User"; where did that come from?
Where do you see anything about "Super User"? By default, your user
will be an "admin" (in the "wheel" group) and can use "su" or "sudo"
to become or act as root. By default, root doesn't have a password.
There shouldn't be any other users other than the system accounts for
various services.
The login GUI that shows up after booting is completed shows "Super
User" as one of the 2 user names that I can choose to log in as.
The other user name (and its credentials) were created by me near the
end of the Anaconda installation process. I don't know if that user is
an "admin" or a member of the "wheel" group.
I found in the Fedora docs how to give "root" a password. So on this
workstation, root now has a password.
You didn't say specifically which installation you used, so I'm
assuming workstation. I don't know about the others.
A friend made the Fedora Live USB for me.
It's Fedora-42 Workstation;
the desktop environment is Gnome;
I don't know if Anaconda installed Wayland or X or both;
I don't know what Anaconda installed for a graphics driver; the card is
nvidia GeForce GTX 660.
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