On 2020-01-23 12:56, George R Goffe via users wrote:
I have re-installed this system and selected the "KDE Plasma Workspaces" but
without any optional packages since there is at least one pkg that fails and TERMINATES
the installation. I wrote a bug report on that. The installation should at least allow the
user to go back and de-select the failing package(s). Sigh...
Your input was VERY valuable... when you said/implied that your installation worked out
of the box. I was able to ssh to the VM as a general user WITH NO CHANGES REQUIRED but
root was disallowed. /var/log/secure reported words to the effect "uid NOT >=
1000" as the cause of the root failure.
I think I goofed with the sshd_config file.
So, again, THANKS for your help.
Yes, ssh to a root account is disabled by default in the Fedora release.
The relevant section of the sshd_conf is...
# Authentication:
#LoginGraceTime 2m
#PermitRootLogin prohibit-password
You have to uncomment and chage it to...
PermitRootLogin yes
To allow password for root account.
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