Hi
How-to do a Factory Reset on Fedora Silverblue? Including user data?
I wish to gift my MBA2014 to somebody else.
I found How to do factory reset but this is for Fedora Workstation, not Silverblue.
Thanks
This may be helpful:
Factory reset capability is not (yet) available, see here.
If I’d receive a laptop as a gift, be it from a friend, I would want to have a clean OS install, and not reuse an existing system.
If you’d want to help the receiver before handing the laptop over, you could reinstall Silverblue, but without going through the post-install initial setup, so that the new user gets the opportunity to create the first wheel user etc.
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As far as resetting the user stuff …
Only tested on a VM, with one user who was in the wheel group. Use at your own risk.
At the login window.
ctrl alt F3
log in as the user
enable the root user
sudo passwd root
After setting the root password
logout
log back in as the root user
userdel -r username
If you want to lock the root user again ..
passwd -l root
reboot
After the reboot it comes back up to the initial setup.
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