>>> Well I have a few things perhaps of interest. >>> >>> I have problems with the firstboot setup and root password. I am using >>> the >>> installer script and the --norootpass option. When I am prompted at the >>> setup, I ignore the setting of the root password. Fortunately I also did >>> not >>> set my user password and made my user have admin priv. Because when I >>> got to >>> login, it wanted a password for root and I could not figure out what. In >>> the >>> past I would just provide 'root' for the login and I was good. So I >>> logged in >>> with my user and did a 'sudo passwd root' to set the root password to >>> what I >>> wanted. >> >> I have to assume systemd is starting something like: >> >> /bin/bash -i >> >> rather than the former (and familiar) root shell without >> login authentication. The same behaviour may be done under >> older initscripts >> >> And put this in /etc/inittab if you want the behavior where it >> is not prompted: >> >> 1:2345:respawn:/bin/bash -i > > > The first line, and comment, in /etc/inittab says this file is no longer > used and any changes in it will have no effect on your system. All in caps > by the way. > >> Robert -- could you check your system and see, and advise the >> list of the results of your examination? > > > So how is systemd started? >From the initrd. It's PID 1 _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm