Thanks very much for this clarification!
Best wishes,
Ranjan
On Sat, 11 May 2019 20:32:45 -0700 Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net> wrote:
On 5/11/19 6:42 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> No, my question is different. I did not use to have a root password, not a empty
password (if I can explain myself) before I went in and added it. I was wondering how one
gets back to this state.
>
> From the manual, is this the same thing as the -l option? Is this what it really
was, earlier (and when a root password is not set during Fedora installation).
Yes. If you look at the other accounts in /etc/shadow that can't login,
you'll see the password field contains only "!!". If you really want to
go back to the initial state, you could change the root entry to have
that as well, but it doesn't make any difference from just using the
"-l" option.
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