On Sun, 4 Dec 2022 09:24:00 -0700
stan via users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Sun, 4 Dec 2022 09:09:21 -0700
stan via users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> So after running dnf update on Dec 2, I can no longer log in as root
> in a console. I shut down last night, and when I booted this
> morning, the problem was there. I can su to root, and the root
> account is still present in /etc/shadow, as is the root directory.
>
> I have seen that root is being removed from install unless
> explicitly requested, but I thought that was only for new installs
> and existing installs wouldn't be affected.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas about what might have gone wrong? Here
> is the list of updates that caused the problem (if it was an
> update, and there isn't something else going on).
This issue is already noted, caused by the new version of authselect.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2150155