On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 12:17:32PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
I'm definitely in favor of the user account changes. The current setup is confusing for non-experienced users, especially because administrator isn't checked by default. This leads to situations where only a root account is created, and if you log in to Workstation in X or (especially) Wayland as root, many things don't work in non-obvious ways. Like, the GNOME user account panel.
I don't think this is possible. If you only create a root password in anaconda, this is noticed at first boot, and g-i-s runs in its pre-GDM mode and forces you to create a user account before you reach GDM.
I got a user report recently about this situation -- I'll verify. It's possible they created a non-admin user account in addition to setting the root password. However, it seems in this case they could log in as that non-admin user and unlock with the root password, right? Maybe the problem is simply insufficient warning when logging in to GNOME as root.