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

ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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