Root U ser Password for Fedora 37

williambrown615 · 04-23-2023, 03:10 PM

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?

michaelk · 04-23-2023, 03:50 PM

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"

John VV · 04-24-2023, 09:50 AM

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

Overlay1874 · 05-02-2023, 04:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John VV

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

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:
Code:
```
sudo su -
```
Now if you absolutely want to enable root login, you can always run:
Code:
```
sudo passwd root
```