On 2020-01-23 12:56, George R Goffe via users wrote: > > I have re-installed this system and selected the "KDE Plasma Workspaces" but without any optional packages since there is at least one pkg that fails and TERMINATES the installation. I wrote a bug report on that. The installation should at least allow the user to go back and de-select the failing package(s). Sigh... > > Your input was VERY valuable... when you said/implied that your installation worked out of the box. I was able to ssh to the VM as a general user WITH NO CHANGES REQUIRED but root was disallowed. /var/log/secure reported words to the effect "uid NOT >= 1000" as the cause of the root failure. > > I think I goofed with the sshd_config file. > > So, again, THANKS for your help. Yes, ssh to a root account is disabled by default in the Fedora release. The relevant section of the sshd_conf is... # Authentication: #LoginGraceTime 2m #PermitRootLogin prohibit-password You have to uncomment and chage it to... PermitRootLogin yes To allow password for root account. -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ 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
