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 _______________________________________________ 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