On 2 Nov 2025 at 11:39, Stephen Morris wrote:
Date sent: Sun, 2 Nov 2025 11:39:30 +1100
Subject: RE: Issue with Fedora 43 difference with gedit and geany with
root
user.
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From: Stephen Morris <[email protected]>
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> On 11/1/25 5:25 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
> On 11/01/2025 05:56 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
>
> Hi Samuel, just for info and I don't know if this is just my environment,
> if I issue sudo -i it prompts for my password, which when supplied it
> switches to root as expected. If I issue su - it prompts for a password
> and if I supply my password it gets an authentication failure, which I
> assume is because it wants a root user which by default Fedora doesn't
> create.
>
> So use sudo -i and while you're root, run passwd to set a root
> password.
> Thanks Joe, I hadn't understood that feature, but unless my
> environment was defective, I thought that fedora didn't even create the
> root user as a user that could be logged in with if you wanted to.
>
> There's always a root user. That's what sudo and su are doing,
> switching you to that user. sudo just does it with an suid executable so
> that root doesn't need to have a password.
>
> I was referring to the situation where in the past (I don't remember what
> the requirement was) I had a situation where I needed to login with the
> root user and I couldn't do it because the root user didn't exist, and I had
> to do a net search to find instructions on how to create the root user so
> that I could login with it.
>
> regards,
>
>
Replied to another message just a while ago.
I run with XFCE.
I generally have terminal window that I run su on, so I can just
switch to it to run things that need root access.
Rather than having to do sudo every time.
On my machine with Fedora 43, my user can't run dnf without user
the sudo. while the root user works fine. Machine was a clean
install of Fedora 42, and then dnf upgrade. root user did already
exist, but did have to user sudo to change the password, since I
didn't have any ideal what it was after the install? Assumed it
would be my user, but wouldn't take it. After changing password
with sudo it worked fine with su.
>
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