On 12/05/2017 07:30 AM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
Then why disable root at all? What if there are no local user accounts,
only via a directory service and network is down? This change is
clearly
not well thought-out. If anything, the redundancy should be reduced on
the GNOME side, not anaconda side, as removing stuff from anaconda
forces alternative desktop environments to reimplement what GNOME does.
We've spend a fair amount of time discussing this change for the past
two years (including just a few months ago on this list), so I don't
think it's fair to say it is not well thought-out. Setting up such an
environment requires significant custom configuration. If you know how
to enable a directory service for logins, which is not supported by any
graphical tools, then you surely know how to set a root password using
passwd. The default Workstation configuration is not relevant in this
scenario for that reason alone. Also consider that computers in such an
environment are probably installed via kickstart or netinstall anyway,
which are unaffected by this change, or at least by a system
administrator who can set a root password if desired. Not by end users.
The default install in Fedora Workstation should be optimized for a
single, local, administrator user. Having a separate root account
enabled is not useful and only leads to confusion. Users do not
understand the difference between their administrator password and their
separate root password. Prompting users to set two different passwords
at install time is confusing and problematic.
Michael
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