On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 21:10:18 -0500 Felix Miata <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree the option for user's and root's password to be the same should > require an > affirmative action at installation, not deselecting what should be an *option* > resulting in the root user creation page being skipped. > > I never noticed this before, because as long as it's been an option to skip > user > creation, it's been the path forward for me. :) Hi Felix, this is something where is no agreement as some prefer it ticked or not ticked. We as YaST team do not want to be the ones that decide this and lets product owner decide in control file. So e.g. SLES does not have it ticked. For opensuse it is driven by this variable https://github.com/yast/skelcd-control-openSUSE/blob/master/control/control.openSUSE.xml#L36 So feel free to convince opensuse release managers or whoever can decide and change it to false and then it will be by default unticked and require explicit action to have same password. Josef > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: Re: 15.2 root password > Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 13:41:20 -0500 > From: Patrick Shanahan > Organization: Ptilopteri in Pandemonium > To: [email protected] > > * Dave Howorth [03-01-21 12:44]: > > On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 15:54:08 +0100 > > "Carlos E. R." wrote: > > > > > On 01/03/2021 15.30, ken wrote: > > > > On March 1, 2021 1:09:25 PM UTC, "Carlos E.R." > > > > wrote: > > > >> On 01/03/2021 14.05, ken wrote: > > > >>> After doing a new install of 15.2, I realized I was never > > > >>> prompted > > > >> for a root password. Now I can't access most things to configure > > > >> the system. How do I set a root password on this system? > > > >>> > > > >> > > > >> It is the same password as your user. > > > > > > > > You're golden. > > > > > > Appreciated, but no :-D > > > > > > You missed in the screen that asks for the user name and password a > > > tick that says something like "use this same password for root". If > > > you untick that, then you get aske for root's password. > > > > That seems like poor UI design to me. I'd expect the default to be > > different passwords and the tickbox to be on the bit where you choose > > root's password to enable you to select the same if you wish. > > > > > There are several things like that in the installation. Defaults that > > > we know are there, we are used to them, with little seen options to > > > change them. We know where they are, but if you are not familiar with > > > the system, you may miss them :-) > > yes, that would be the *best* approach. >
