Hi, In Fedora 20 and 21, the installer doesn't require setting the root password. Yet systemd in both requires a root password to do anything, including basic boot time troubleshooting, in both rescue.target and emergency.target. If the user is dropped to an emergency shell at boot, and are referred to rdsosreport.txt, they can't do anything if they haven't set a root password. And if they need to do a password reset, they're stuck also. Questions Is this the intended and desired UX for Workstation? If not, what policy change is most practical? Requiring the user set a root password, or somehow enabling systemd emergency.target to accept a non-root user in group wheel? Points of comparison Windows has a burdensome password reset method, but it does offer startup repair environments that don't require a password. OS X has a safe boot option, as well as a separate recovery environment, also without requiring a password, and a password reset can be done within this environment. -- Chris Murphy -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
