Password not working for wheel user
After installing Bazzite, the password I selected does not work, only works in sddm. My user is in the wheel group, but I can't use sudo or change password, I'm just getting authentication failure. The password that I selected during the install only works when logging in with sddm. Is it supposed to be this way? If not, how can I fix it?
Would chroot into the system and change the password be an ok solution?
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use emergency mode to change the password without messing up your system
https://docs.bazzite.gg/Advanced/rescue-and-emergency-mode/?h=emergenc...
Booting to Rescue & Emergency Mode - Bazzite Documentation
Bazzite is a custom image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices.
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Solution
use emergency mode to change the password without messing up your system
https://docs.bazzite.gg/Advanced/rescue-and-emergency-mode/?h=emergenc
Booting to Rescue & Emergency Mode - Bazzite Documentation
Bazzite is a custom image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices.
literally no idea why it doesnt work for you when the user is in the wheel group but login works
Thank you! That worked perfectly.
FYI: I finally realized what had happened. I changed my password back to the original and then sddm login stopped working. It appears the sddm keyboard language is different then then what I am using for the OS and a symbol in the password changes depending on the keyboard language.
there is a dropdown to change the keyboard in SDDM
I changed it with
localectl set-keymap <language> and now the keyboard language is the same across the whole system. I seem to have forgot to set keyboard language during the installation.