I tried Fedora 29 in a virtual machine, during installation is set the root password and a new user is created but during the first boot is prompted again to create a user (the one created during installation is ignored) and I have not access to the root user, why?
You do not need the root password. You can use instead sudo su and provide your user's password. Your user must be an administrator to do this.
Asked: 2019-02-26 07:51:34 -0600
Seen: 127 times
Last updated: Feb 26 '19
Ask Fedora is community maintained and Red Hat or Fedora Project is not responsible for content. Content on this site is licensed under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.
sounds strange.
i suggest a complete reinstall.
Installation probably didn't go well. So complete reinstall would be reasonable.
It seems to me that even with Fedora 28 (in a virtual machine) I had the same problem. Could it depend on whether new versions of Fedora recognize that they run in a virtual machine and block root access? The installation has been executed without errors.
In F29 they changed the user creation, i.e. they don't prompt for a root password anymore, because you shall use sudo to execute root cmds. It does not improofe security, but it's hyped atm. How to fix:
"sudo su" will ask for the users password. "password root" will asked twice for the new root password.
OK thanks!