On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 Tim via users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Tom H:
>
> What makes you think that CentOS would be different? It uses the
> same installer.
It's been pointed out to me that it depends on what spin you
install from. I used the MATE spin (with current release CentOS and
Fedora), and its install routine asks me to set up root, and at
least one user. It does that while it's installing to the drive.
NB: That's doing a default install from the live MATE spin ISO. Not
installing Fedora (nor CentOS) from another ISO then adding MATE to
the installation (I haven't tried doing that).
I guess its down to policy of particular desktops whether they
bother to ask you about these things (how much they dumb things
down, and how much they expect people to update-over-the-top
instead of doing a fresh install).
Indeed. I'd also written and you snipped:
Fedora's Workstation installer doesn't prompt for the creation of a
root password and there's no reason to think that the RHEL/CentOS 7
does unless the no-root change hasn't been backported from Fedora.