On Thu, 21 Jul 2022 12:19:37 -0700 Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 7/21/22 11:18, stan via users wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Jul 2022 16:48:57 +0200 > > Patrick Dupre <pdupre@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> How can I have a root account, which execute the bash files > >> (.bashrc ..) at login ? > > > > I haven't actually tried this since all my systems so far have had a > > root account, but > > sudo useradd -u 1 -p throwawaypassword root > > should do the trick. Then run > > sudo passwd --expire root > > so that root will have to change their password on the first login. > > Then immediately login as root and set the root password to what you > > want. > > I don't understand how this is an answer to the question. There is > always a root account, you can't create one. I think he just wants > it to run ".bashrc" at login which it isn't (?) for some reason. As I said, I haven't actually experienced one of the new setups without root login. passwd --status root If the /root directory is present and root is already assigned to UID 1, then it should only be necessary to remove the lock on the password and set up a password. passwd --unlock --expire root _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
