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Bazzite•13mo ago•
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Password doesn't work (Yes I already reset it)

Hey y'all!

Marking as bug because as far as I can tell I am doing everything right, although error on my part is of course possible.

Recently, my password stopped working. "sorry, wrong password". I can't tell you when exactly since I have autologin enabled. Both in the KDE kwallet dialog boxes, as well as on the command line for
sudo
sudo
. (Another weird thing: sometimes
ujust update
ujust update
prompts me for a password, sometimes it doesn't, what gives?)

I was pretty sure I haven't changed it, but I decided to follow the guide: https://docs.bazzite.gg/Advanced/Reset_Forgotten_User_Password/

So I went and reset it, and... it still doesn't work. I am losing my mind over here haha.

disclaimers:
- I know I typed it right,
passwd
passwd
had me type it twice
- I haven't set my keyboard to a weird language or anything, I've typed it in a regular terminal window and it's correct
- Yes I reset the password for the same user that
sudo
sudo
is prompting me for (in my case
marty
marty
)

has anybody seen something like this before? Is it something to do with autologin or the switch to desktop mode?

super grateful for any help and big ups to the UB team for all their amazing distro (no password issues on my aurora-dx work machine haha)

system info:

rpm-ostree status
State: idle
Deployments:
  ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-deck:stable
                   Digest: sha256:702c8397e1215800c5a589728ddc4e30822a07328f004dff3ead71b5960e400f
                  Version: 41.20250106.3 (2025-01-07T04:25:40Z)
                     Diff: 434 upgraded, 8 downgraded, 2 removed, 195 added
            LocalPackages: lact-0.5.6-0.x86_64

● ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-deck:stable
                   Digest: sha256:84712e223557d8eb2c3d0ba7fc39070715f6ba796463326405de4bd7d9116a10
                  Version: 41.20241216 (2024-12-16T05:01:17Z)
            LocalPackages: lact-0.5.6-0.x86_64
rpm-ostree status
State: idle
Deployments:
  ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-deck:stable
                   Digest: sha256:702c8397e1215800c5a589728ddc4e30822a07328f004dff3ead71b5960e400f
                  Version: 41.20250106.3 (2025-01-07T04:25:40Z)
                     Diff: 434 upgraded, 8 downgraded, 2 removed, 195 added
            LocalPackages: lact-0.5.6-0.x86_64

● ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-deck:stable
                   Digest: sha256:84712e223557d8eb2c3d0ba7fc39070715f6ba796463326405de4bd7d9116a10
                  Version: 41.20241216 (2024-12-16T05:01:17Z)
            LocalPackages: lact-0.5.6-0.x86_64


This is on a regular 64bit desktop machine (amd cpu & gpu).
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