Having trouble sudo password setup
I've installed BazziteOS successfully on my PC before needing to reinstall it again on a different drive. I've got it installed on one of my other drives, but I'm still running into the same problem, sudo password. As a test I usually just use a basic password like "1" and change it later to eliminate complications since you can't see your password typed and you get asked a bunch of times to reenter it. I understand why Linux does this even though it would be nice If I could turn this off, but besides the point. I get in and set everything up then go into terminal to check my sudo password on this second attempt, and something seems to be wrong.
I'm asked 3 times and I put in 1 each time, and it says the password is wrong. Now, if I can't do "1" correctly each instance as a password then obviously I'm the problem, but I'm 100% certain my password should be 1 and that's what I'm entering. I'm not sure if there is something that I'm not getting on the sudo password setup that's maybe specific to Bazzite, or if there is some bug that my PC is being afflicted with. I really need access to sudo on my Bazzite partition because I'm going to be doing a lot of things that will require it besides just gaming, but due to this sudo issue I can't even get emudeck or decky installed. So, I'd just appreciate some guidance on what I could do to solve this, or if I'm doing something wrong.
Also, I already had to reinstall the OS once on a different drive, and that took me longer to get fixed because of weird drive conflicts on my machine. After trying some things, several days. So I'd like not to have to do that yet again.
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I got to the part where you enter 1 as your password and kind of just gave up, I would recommend setting an actual password the first time
Make sure you do not make a root account and you assign your username a real password and check them as an administrator
My password is not the problem. I've done this before with SteamOS on a Steamdeck and didn't have any problems.
To be 100% clear, as long as you are entering a password of 1 during install and then changing it later, there is a 0% chance you're getting help here
Plus my keyboard sometimes duplicates characters when typing, and I type fast. So it a bit of a problem to make a full password when I can't actually see if I'm entering the password correctly
We have 25,000 users a month and you are the only one reporting password changing problems, coincidentally, you are the only one doing something as cursed as this
Please reopen a help issue once you have not done that