I just installed Fedora and restarted it. After booting up the system, I was asked to create a password and a username, and I just skipped this item.Now it asks me for a username and password to log in, but I skipped it and did not set it at all. can you help me?
you MUST set the user name and password. Without that you cannot log in nor use the system at all.
Even on windows you must have a user name and password, and linux is no different in that respect.
The easiest recovery since this is a new install would be to do a complete new reinstall and this time do not skip the mandatory step of configuring a user name and password.
I have a feeling the installer shouldn’t be allowing people to end up with account-less systems. I’m not sure how you were able to skip a password creation, but as-suggested I’d also recommend just reinstalling and making sure to set something.
Yeah, but Windows forces it during OOBE after install; you can’t possibly skip it.
I can’t think of any scenario of a Linux distro allowing you to install the OS and get to a log-in screen without ever asking for account creation or at least a root password. I’m curious how that can be skipped at all on Fedora.
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Workstation installs without creating a user and at first boot asks for a user name and password.
I agree it should not allow that to be skipped.
The OP apparently was able to skip that part and now is locked out totally.
I do know how to force the boot into a single user (root) account where if the user is able to run adduser properly. They could create a user account and password that then would allow booting and getting logged in. That would require several steps though, including adding that user into the wheel group, and is not for the uninitiated to tackle. The adduser command line would be complex to complete everything required.
I think your shortest route to bliss is to re-install and set up the user account this time.
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Actually, I had set the root password, but I didn’t have a password for the account and I was just skipped that.
You could not set up the root password on workstation until after logging in as a regular user which is configured as a member of the wheel group and using sudo to set the root password. The root account is by default locked out on Workstation at first install.
Glad that you were able to reinstall and it seems things may be OK now.