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Old 07-17-2017, 11:38 AM   #61
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You indicated that sudo works for you

then do sudo su

passwd root


One reason for problems with root occurs if you have defined two different keyboard layouts.
For the gui you are using xyz, whereas, when Fedora was installed, it it is using US

Check the characters at the logon prompt
 
  


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