On Sat, 2022-07-23 at 18:18 -0700, stan via users wrote:
The new installs, from what I understand, do not set up a root account password as part of the install process.
I installed Fedora 36 not long ago, Mate spin. There was an opportunity to set up root while the install was going on.
I always do. It's far more convenient for me to open a terminal and "su -" so I can do a mass of text editing setting up servers, than sudo each thing (*). I don't do graphical logins as root, so I have no idea if that still works.
I might be editing several DNS zone records, a DHCP server config, restarting the servers, checking things worked, stopping servers, doing tweaks, rinse lather repeat. I'm damned if I want to be typing my lengthy password for each instance of that. If I was forced to sudo every one of those, the password would end up being shortened to something easier to type. That's more of a security problem in my book.