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Comment on desktop user password issues. can't do squat in desktop.

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) is usermod -aG wheel.

These commands should be run as root by prepending sudo.

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ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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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- NateNate60@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If you know the root password, then you can switch to the account called root using the su root command.
  
  The sudoers file is located at /etc/sudoers. Do keep in mind that this file should not be edited directly. You can use the cat command which will print the content of a file to the terminal. So try cat /etc/sudoers.
  
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  - ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    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.
    
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