On 7/11/19 6:45 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 7/10/19 3:35 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 07/10/2019 02:37 PM, Alessio wrote: >>> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019, 9:04 PM sixpack13 <sixpac...@online.de >>> <mailto:sixpac...@online.de>> wrote: >>> >>> wasn't su disallowed during the last fedora upgrades ? >>> >>> No. >>> As far as I know only root is locked by default (at least on Fedora >>> Workstation). Aka >>> you can't su to root. But you are able to use Switch to any other (not >>> locked) User, >>> as usual. >>> >> Is there a way to undo this noxious action? Because if not, I'll be >> migrating both of >> my computers to CentOs. > > So much overreaction to incorrect information. Yes, by default, the root > password is > locked, which has been the case for a long time. The installer lets you set > it if you > want. There is no change to su or sudo. As always, if the root password is > disabled, > you can't use su to get to root. But again, as always, sudo will still work > if your > user account is set as an administrator (i.e. part of wheel group). And ssh > to root > will work if you setup a key.
I don't have a running Workstation instance at the moment. However, I seem to recall if one is hard-up about using "su -" they can "sudo passwd root" and create a pw and then "su -" will function as before. -- Right: I dislike the default color scheme Wrong: What idiot picked the default color scheme _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org 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@lists.fedoraproject.org
