HOW DO I CHANGE THE SUDO PASSWORD FOR MY STEAM DECK WITHOUT KNOWING THE OLD PASSWORD??????

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Kareemofficial@thelemmy.club⁩ to ⁨steamdeck@sopuli.xyz⁩

hi so i wanna change the sudo password for my steam deck but its forcing me to put the old password AND I DIDNT PUT ANY PASSWORD BEFORE so I NEED HELP

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alexcleac@szmer.info ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
If you haven’t set a password before, then it should be the default one: empty. Then, to use sudo you will need to set one by using passwd command.

In case if the password was set in the past: the only way would be to run factory reset, or restore from image.

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- bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Booting from any rescue Linux system and removing or editing /etc/shadow in the overlay partition would work as well. No need for a factory reset.
  
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- Kareemofficial@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  i tried running passwd deck then trying sudo passwd deck and it worked :D tysm
  
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LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
You have to manually edit /etc/shaddow

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- Lemmchen@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Without sudo? :D
  
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  - LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    You have to boot from another OS, mount the drive, then do it
    
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Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Have you installed anything else on your deck already in desktop mode, like Decky loader, emudeck, cryoutilities?

Some of those have an option to set a default password to something like “deck”. If you clicked through the setup on those it might have set a password without you realizing.

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- Kareemofficial@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  i do have deckyloader, i also know it sets the password temporarily to “Decky!” i tried that and it didnt work D:, i didnt try the password “deck” yet i will try that in a sec
  
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