On 7/21/22 17:08, Stephen Morris wrote:
From previous experience when I was using Fedora in a VM under windows, and I needed the "root" account, Fedora no longer creates the root account at installation and you have to go through a series of steps to actually create it, which I was given by a person on this list, but unfortunately I don't have those steps anymore having created my system from scratch as a result of hardware upgrades and switching out of raid. It sounds to me like the op is needing that root account but doesn't have it, so getting the steps to create it may resolve his issue?
When I installed F35 on this laptop, there was an option in the installer to set up the root account, but it looked like it wasn't active. However, when I clicked on it, I was able to confirm that I did indeed want a root account and then give it a password. I think that the main reason it looks like you can't activate the root account is that most users today don't know how to use root or really need to and they don't want people like that to think that they have to set it up. Much better, I'd think is to have that part of the installation clearly labeled as optional, so that nobody thinks they have to use it, but those of us who do like it don't feel like we have to jump through hoops to get it.
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