Root U ser Password for Fedora 37
 

I just installed Fedora 37. It has no option to create a Root User password. I want to install the GCC Compiler and it needs the Root User password for installation. I give my User password but that doesn't work. How can I set a Root password?

If you did not enable root at installation then you would use sudo with your user's password i.e.

sudo dnf groupinstall "Development Tools"

it dose look like fedora dropped the root user and "su -" for " sudo" and the user account

Which is a good change, in my honest opinion. If someone needs direct root access, they should be elevating from a user context. sudo for terminal applications. For graphical applications: pkexec, kdesu, gksu.

Here be Dragons :tisk:

• You can still assume the root user's account. It is still there, you just need an elevated account to access it. You can do the following:
  
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  sudo su -

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• Now if you absolutely want to enable root login, you can always run:
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  sudo passwd root

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