For use the line of command by administrator by keeping the user log in without be log in as root so you need type ' sudo ' in front the line of command where you would be log in as the user without be log in as root thus an example below finally i hope your success, regards.

From: fedora <fedora@vps626754.ovh.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2023 9:27:15 AM
To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Re: logging in as root

On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 09:45:35PM -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote:
> I never set a personal password I just uploaded the tarball and converted it
> to an image and ran it in a VM. It's the GCP tarball.

You need to initialize the image with something like 'cloud-init'.
You could also use 'virt-install' to customize the image.
If you are using Fedora CoreOS you could use 'Ignition'.
Here is a link to Fedora Documentation, but it describes Fedora CoreOS,
not Cloud Edition: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-coreos/provisioning-gcp/
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