desktop user password issues. can't do squat in desktop.
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wrote last edited by [email protected]
I have the one default user "deck" in desktop mode. It looks like it's set to a standard account type.
I can't add a user or change this without a pop up asking "Authentication is required to change user data" and wanting "authenticating as root" password.
Leaving it blank fails. Putting in my sudo password that I have set and at this point double checked multiple times from within Konsole fails as well. I'll go in Konsole and type "passwd" then I'll type the current password and it will say "changing password for deck" and the change works fine. I'll close Konsole, but still have the same issue outside of konsole. Entering a password fails when trying to modify user or update anything.
I can't update anything on desktop now, and I can't figure out what the heck the issue with it is.
Does anyone have a clue? Thanks
Edit\update: Tried a million things. Couldn't get back root access. Made a steam OS boot image on a micro SD card and used it in the steam deck to re-install steam OS but keep my downloads\user files etc. This worked and got back "deck" as admin account as it should be. All better.
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I have the one default user "deck" in desktop mode. It looks like it's set to a standard account type.
I can't add a user or change this without a pop up asking "Authentication is required to change user data" and wanting "authenticating as root" password.
Leaving it blank fails. Putting in my sudo password that I have set and at this point double checked multiple times from within Konsole fails as well. I'll go in Konsole and type "passwd" then I'll type the current password and it will say "changing password for deck" and the change works fine. I'll close Konsole, but still have the same issue outside of konsole. Entering a password fails when trying to modify user or update anything.
I can't update anything on desktop now, and I can't figure out what the heck the issue with it is.
Does anyone have a clue? Thanks
Edit\update: Tried a million things. Couldn't get back root access. Made a steam OS boot image on a micro SD card and used it in the steam deck to re-install steam OS but keep my downloads\user files etc. This worked and got back "deck" as admin account as it should be. All better.
I'm not sure exactly what causes this, but you can work around it as long as you can actually run commands as root (i.e. using
sudo) in the terminal.The command to add a new user is
adduser.The command to add a user to the administrators group (i.e. give them the ability to use
sudo) isusermod -aG wheel.These commands should be run as root by prepending
sudo. -
I have the one default user "deck" in desktop mode. It looks like it's set to a standard account type.
I can't add a user or change this without a pop up asking "Authentication is required to change user data" and wanting "authenticating as root" password.
Leaving it blank fails. Putting in my sudo password that I have set and at this point double checked multiple times from within Konsole fails as well. I'll go in Konsole and type "passwd" then I'll type the current password and it will say "changing password for deck" and the change works fine. I'll close Konsole, but still have the same issue outside of konsole. Entering a password fails when trying to modify user or update anything.
I can't update anything on desktop now, and I can't figure out what the heck the issue with it is.
Does anyone have a clue? Thanks
Edit\update: Tried a million things. Couldn't get back root access. Made a steam OS boot image on a micro SD card and used it in the steam deck to re-install steam OS but keep my downloads\user files etc. This worked and got back "deck" as admin account as it should be. All better.
Check on Reddit, somebody posted a tutorial on how to reset the desktop user password on the Steam Deck.
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Check on Reddit, somebody posted a tutorial on how to reset the desktop user password on the Steam Deck.
I've done that reset like 3 times now. If I open Konsole and check my password, it's correct and will also let me change it within there. But when I go to users or try to update things in the normal desktop GUI the password doesn't work. I'm not sure how to force updates or modify users just within Konsole.
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I'm not sure exactly what causes this, but you can work around it as long as you can actually run commands as root (i.e. using
sudo) in the terminal.The command to add a new user is
adduser.The command to add a user to the administrators group (i.e. give them the ability to use
sudo) isusermod -aG wheel.These commands should be run as root by prepending
sudo.I'm trying to sudo in a user or elevate deck to admin. Either way if I try to sudo anything, I get asked " [sudo]password for deck: " and when I put in a password it says " deck is not in the sudoers file. "
So I haven't been able to do anything worthwhile, yet.
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I've done that reset like 3 times now. If I open Konsole and check my password, it's correct and will also let me change it within there. But when I go to users or try to update things in the normal desktop GUI the password doesn't work. I'm not sure how to force updates or modify users just within Konsole.
well if you want to update the flatpaks, then you can use
flatpak update --noninteractive. there's also a deckyloader plugin (I forget the name) that updates them from game mode automatically on whatever schedule you set.if it's the system, then that updates outside of desktop mode from the setting page.
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well if you want to update the flatpaks, then you can use
flatpak update --noninteractive. there's also a deckyloader plugin (I forget the name) that updates them from game mode automatically on whatever schedule you set.if it's the system, then that updates outside of desktop mode from the setting page.
Negative. Because deck (user) doesn't have admin privileges all of the update attempts failed.
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I'm trying to sudo in a user or elevate deck to admin. Either way if I try to sudo anything, I get asked " [sudo]password for deck: " and when I put in a password it says " deck is not in the sudoers file. "
So I haven't been able to do anything worthwhile, yet.
wrote last edited by [email protected]If you know the root password, then you can switch to the account called
rootusing thesu rootcommand.In Linux there is always a user called
root, which is the only account allowed to perform most system management tasks. Thesudocommand just executes a commend asroot. Most of the time you don't need to actually sign into therootaccount, just usesudo, but you can actually sign into it in the terminal as it is a real bona fide user account.The sudoers file is located at
/etc/sudoers. Do keep in mind that this file should not be edited directly. You can use thecatcommand which will print the content of a file to the terminal. So trycat /etc/sudoers. -
If you know the root password, then you can switch to the account called
rootusing thesu rootcommand.In Linux there is always a user called
root, which is the only account allowed to perform most system management tasks. Thesudocommand just executes a commend asroot. Most of the time you don't need to actually sign into therootaccount, just usesudo, but you can actually sign into it in the terminal as it is a real bona fide user account.The sudoers file is located at
/etc/sudoers. Do keep in mind that this file should not be edited directly. You can use thecatcommand which will print the content of a file to the terminal. So trycat /etc/sudoers.I'm unable to su root or access the sudoers file. I'm going to try using a steam os image file on a flash drive to reinstall my steam deck os.
