Fedora Users — Re: Installing Fedora 12

On 4/26/2010 10:29 AM, Nathan Woodruff wrote:

I’ve downloaded the Fedora 12 desktop edition and I’ve installed it now three times on a U2 server of ours. Every time after the reboot of the newly installed system, I get the login screen. The first time when I installed, I used a password that I always use as a default, at least I thought, I wasn’t 100% sure. I typed in “root” with out the quotes and type in the default password that I always use. “Authentication Failed” and doesn’t log on.

Okay, another 6 hours of installation, this time I write down the password that I typed in for root. Another reboot without the live CD to the clean install, and I get the login screen. I type “root” and the written down password. Same thing “Authentication Failed”.

That night I start another 6 hours of a clean install and this time I use the word “password” for the requested password. I know that I can not mess that up.

The next day I come in to a clean install from the Live CD and I get the login screen. I type “root” and “password”. “Authentication Failed”….

If I wanted an operating system that all it does is display “Authentication Failed”, I’d be in business. I was hoping it would do more than that.

What am I doing wrong?

Nathan Woodruff

You're not doing anything wrong. Fedora Gnome doesn't allow root access from the signon screen. You have to sign in using a user id other than root, and then su - to get to the root login.

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