On 3/21/25 15:09, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Fri, 2025-03-21 at 14:18 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 3/21/25 2:14 PM, Todd Chester via users wrote:
On 3/21/25 14:06, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 3/21/25 12:24 PM, Alex Gurenko via users wrote:
Do you need it to ask for a root password? Maybe just add your user to the libvirt group with usermod -a -G libvirt <username> ?
If you do that, it won't ask for any password. Otherwise, it is trying to find an admin user. But there's no way to get it to ask for the root password.
My office machine does.
Maybe if there's no admin user. By default, root doesn't even have a password.
What? Every Linux (and UNIX) system I've ever used has had a root password, including Fedora. In fact, Anaconda asks you to set one up at installation. Or did you mean something else?
I guess I didn't get the memo ;D I haven't had a root password on a system, vm, or container in years. I add myself to wheel or sudo and install a public key in my user's .ssh dir. I do as much work as my UID:GIDs as possible and escalate only when absolutely necessary.
It requires some workarounds that are more time consuming. When completely stymied I boot to a live system usb and sudo su, then mount the partition that requires root privilege and go from there.
I do recall a situation where I needed a rescue so I finagled a root pw onto the problem child, booted the rescue, did my fix, and deleted the root password, and rebooted.
:m