Re: root account

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On Fri, 2022-07-22 at 08:12 -0700, stan via users wrote:
> 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

Root is always UID 0.

poc
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