Re: Not able to login as root anymore

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On Wed, 2023-01-11 at 19:21 +0100, Jose Maria Terry Jimenez wrote:
> 
> El 11/1/23 a las 17:17, Andreas Fournier escribió:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I just updated my Fedora 36 desktop with the latest updates and
> > after
> > that I can no longer do 'su -' in a terminal window. I get 'su:
> > Authentication failure'. Same thing if I try to log in as root on
> > the
> > console. But sudo works. What could have happened?
> 
> Hi
> 
> No idea, but you could try
> 
> sudo su -
> 
> Then:
> 
> passwd
> 
> (to set root password)
> 
> And try again

Thanks, that solved the issue.

But I don't know what to think about it. Should I get paranoid?
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