On Fri, 2025-03-21 at 22:28 +0000, Will McDonald wrote: > On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 at 22:10, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Fri, 2025-03-21 at 14:18 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > Maybe if there's no admin user. By default, root doesn't even have a > > > password. > > > > What? Every Linux (and UNIX) system I've ever used has had a root > > password, including Fedora. In fact, Anaconda asks you to set one up at > > installation. Or did you mean something else? > > > It's pretty common for baked cloud images and VMs to be provisioned with no > explicit root password set. >
I'm aware of that. I raised a metaphorical eyebrow at the idea that this was default behaviour, especially in the context of desktop systems. I'd be surprised if the OP didn't have a root password. poc -- _______________________________________________ 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, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
