On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tom H: >> >> What makes you think that CentOS would be different? It uses the >> same installer. > > It's been pointed out to me that it depends on what spin you > install from. I used the MATE spin (with current release CentOS and > Fedora), and its install routine asks me to set up root, and at > least one user. It does that while it's installing to the drive. > > NB: That's doing a default install from the live MATE spin ISO. Not > installing Fedora (nor CentOS) from another ISO then adding MATE to > the installation (I haven't tried doing that). > > I guess its down to policy of particular desktops whether they > bother to ask you about these things (how much they dumb things > down, and how much they expect people to update-over-the-top > instead of doing a fresh install). Indeed. I'd also written and you snipped: Fedora's Workstation installer doesn't prompt for the creation of a root password and there's no reason to think that the RHEL/CentOS 7 does unless the no-root change hasn't been backported from Fedora. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
