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Bug 1581894

Summary: Differences to Ubuntu - the root account - su vs. sudo su
Product: [Retired] Fedora Documentation Reporter: Daniel Hammer <daniel.hammer+redhatbugzillacom>
Component: fedora-websitesAssignee: Fedora Websites Team <web-members>
Status: CLOSED DEFERRED QA Contact: Fedora Websites Team <web-members>
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Version: develCC: nman64, pbokoc, web-members
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Differences_to_Ubuntu
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Last Closed: 2019-11-08 08:18:46 UTC Type: Bug
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Screenshot of "The root account" section 2018-05-23 none

Description Daniel Hammer 2018-05-23 20:49:27 UTC 
Created attachment 1440783 [details]
Screenshot of "The root account" section 2018-05-23

Description of problem:
Documentation doesn't match current behavior.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Differences_to_Ubuntu

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 28

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora 28
2. Follow installation defaults + activate disk encryption
3. when logged in as user created during install
4. open terminal
5. execute command$ su
Password is requested, entering password from previously created user doesn't provide root access.
6. execute command$ sudo su
Password is requested, entering password from previously created user provides root access.

Actual results:
The behavior doesn't match the "root account" documentation, ie. sudo provides root access.

Expected results:
Documentation matches behavior, or behavior matches documentation.

Additional info:
Fresh Fedora install + I'm migrating from Ubuntu :)
Comment 1 Petr Bokoc 2019-11-08 08:18:46 UTC 
Hello, unfortunately that entire page is outdated and could use a rewrite as indicated by the warning on top, and besides this type of content should be on https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/docs/, not the wiki. I opened an issue in our docs tracker that's related to this (https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/quick-docs/issue/156), but I can't guarantee anything is going to happen anytime soon.

Either way, I'm going to close this now.