Just installed fedora, absolutely new to Linux, and god i wish this will allow me to trash windumb forever.
with Grok’s help I manage to totally remove the boot password and screen lock, jumping right to desktop, but now (i dont know if im getting this right) there’s some other stuff it’s telling me to do on other matters, like installing tixati from the .rpm or creating a new folder in /mnt, and it’s saying something along the line that since i dont have a password the system just outright bypass some higher level of access or whatever, that cant be right?
How do i finalize this step, > zero password, full access, system wide?
Hi, and welcome.
When you install and setup a Linux OS you have to type your password many times, that’s a simple fact. But once you have things setup it gets a whole lot less. I use my laptop every day and by far most of those days I only type the password once when I want to log in. After that never again.
So, if I were you I would just follow the normal way of using a Linux distro, select a password you can remember easily and which is easy to type. You’ll see, the amount of times you need to type it per day will be just a few. You don’t need it to write onto your home disk, because you already own it.
I have never heard/read something about using Linux without a root password.
Writing on the system disk demands the administrator (root) password. When you don’t have one the system can’t grant you access to write on that disk. It means you can’t do what you want/need to do.
Just to clarify, your user has a password but you enabled auto-login to desktop? Your user is part of the admin group (wheel)? (Test with sudo dnf update).
Is the application you are running requesting root access?
well, right now no… there isnt any password, i push power and it goes to desktop, that’s it, which is exactly what i want… regarding app i couldnt tell you since i have another issue where discovery doesnt work, and installing app via konsole doesnt either, but this was the same before i remove the password and it seems this as to do with mirrors or whatever, probably due to the fact that i am now in vietnam and the isp might be blocking stuff… in dolphin /mnt though, creating a new forder is just grayed out, not even an option, grok is telling me that something red should popup somehow asking for admin, but i cant see or get to that step… i guess what i want then maybe is an automatic admin, all the time.
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What happens if you right-click on /mnt and click “Open As Administrator”?
Or, if you’re already inside /mnt, right-click somewhere in the blank space below the list of directories, and click “Open As Administrator” from that menu.
i get that, but right now im already pass this step, i push power and it goes to desktop, the end… i use it everyday as well, and i am on 100% mouse control, i do not have keyboard access on my setup, when i need it, it’s on-screen… this is a completely unnecessary and deeply annoying step i do not want… ‘It’s your OS’, right? ;-)… this steps fine, but i just cant have the thing not install stuff or not do things cause of that, if it needs a ‘click to confirm’ sure… to be fair i wouldnt mind a very rare ‘123’ password on very rare occasion, on some install or rare updates for instance, that’s fine, but i cant have it at boot, and absolutely none is prefered… the simple fact is that on that system zero security is needed, not anymore than my microwave would need a password before it cook stuff, it just need it to do the stuff.
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hummm, i think you might have solve my issue, man… or at least part of it… R-click /mnt, open in admin, briefly pop some window which seems to be the password but since there’s none it just goes right through… and then the top goes red, saying it’s in admin, and i do can create a folder, doesnt tell me what will happens in konsole, but that promising… Thanks
while on it, is there a way to remove the apply step every times you change a setting, gets annoying… ‘yeah, ive changed it, i know, just did, next…’
