Re: securing this workstation.

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On 4/25/25 8:45 PM, home user via users wrote:

On 4/25/2025 8:48 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 4/25/25 6:27 PM, home user via users wrote:
securing this workstation: part 2.

The login screen has 2 named users:
1. a user that Anaconda had me create.
2. "Super User", which I did ***not*** create.
Then there's something else below those that I can use to log in as root.
What is "Super User"; where did that come from?

Where do you see anything about "Super User"?  By default, your user will be an "admin" (in the "wheel" group) and can use "su" or "sudo" to become or act as root.  By default, root doesn't have a password. There shouldn't be any other users other than the system accounts for various services.
The login GUI that shows up after booting is completed shows "Super User" as one of the 2 user names that I can choose to log in as. The other user name (and its credentials) were created by me near the end of the Anaconda installation process.  I don't know if that user is an "admin" or a member of the "wheel" group.

I have no idea what install you used, but it couldn't have been the workstation live install. I've never seen or heard of that user and when I just tested it, there's no user like that.

Also if you used the workstation live install, you don't create a user until you've rebooted in the installed system, not in anaconda.

You didn't say specifically which installation you used, so I'm assuming workstation.  I don't know about the others.

A friend made the Fedora Live USB for me.
It's Fedora-42 Workstation;
the desktop environment is Gnome;
I don't know if Anaconda installed Wayland or X or both;
I don't know what Anaconda installed for a graphics driver; the card is nvidia GeForce GTX 660.

You'll be using Wayland. Anaconda won't install the proprietary NVidia drivers, so you must be using nouveau. If it works, then great. If you have issues, you might want to install the drivers from rpmfusion.

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