Thanks very much for this clarification! Best wishes, Ranjan On Sat, 11 May 2019 20:32:45 -0700 Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 5/11/19 6:42 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > No, my question is different. I did not use to have a root password, not a empty password (if I can explain myself) before I went in and added it. I was wondering how one gets back to this state. > > > > From the manual, is this the same thing as the -l option? Is this what it really was, earlier (and when a root password is not set during Fedora installation). > > Yes. If you look at the other accounts in /etc/shadow that can't login, > you'll see the password field contains only "!!". If you really want to > go back to the initial state, you could change the root entry to have > that as well, but it doesn't make any difference from just using the > "-l" option. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be deleted on receipt. Please respond to the mailing list if appropriate. For those needing to send personal or professional e-mail, please use appropriate addresses. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
