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Incorrect password bug.

Sometimes password stops working.  Saying it was wrong all time.

After a while when I logged in trying to using konsole to install or remove some software or also sometimes at login screen. Just fixed after a reboot. 

Theres any true solution for this (not this reboot mitgation)?

Im im runit version plasma edition.

Re: Incorrect password bug.

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When you type 3 times wrong password , sudo locks session for privillage command for 10 mins.
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use
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loginctl
to unlock session
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Quote from: Arch_user – on
When you type 3 times wrong password , sudo locks session for privillage command for 10 mins.


This is not the problem. On the first try it fails. It's happened to me a few times, I thought I was really inserting the wrong password, but today I confirmed that it is a bug.

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Quote from: Rafael Bluhm – on
This is not the problem. On the first try it fails. It's happened to me a few times, I thought I was really inserting the wrong password, but today I confirmed that it is a bug.
This has happened to me several times as well.
I rebooted (Ctrl+Alt+Del) and it was OK.
It seems to me that since I use linux-lts I no longer have this problem...

Re: Incorrect password bug.

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After an update I'm having this issue too. If I make a new user I can't login but if I login through root that works. I've looked inside /etc/shadow and it was locked despite not entering the password incorrectly prior. I removed the lock but I still had the same issue, looked through pam too and everything was configured correctly so I'm not sure what's going on. Also I tried logging into my user via CLI and I'm having the same issue so it doesn't seem to be an issue with lightdm.


Update: it might be lightdm's fault but I can't use sddm either. I think this issue might be xorg related.

Re: Incorrect password bug.

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Sudo uses the console keymap, not the x keymap. Well it does on my system, don't know if it's supposed to but it does. If I hit ctrl alt f* and login on a tty, this is now using the console keymap. If I press the F(n) keys they make different characters, which doesn't happen in the x desktop, although some are bound to particular desktop actions. It will depend what desktop you are using and what keymaps you have configured. If I type my sudo password and at some point also press one of the keys which has no individual binding and should do nothing in x, it won't be accepted. So if your console keymap is not coinciding with your x keymap you might not be typing what you think you have typed, and if you login on a tty you can check the relevant keys are producing the expected characters to eliminate that possibility.

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After reinstalling lightdm, lightdm-s6 and lightdm-gtk-greeter my system can't display the greeter and xorg isn't working correctly. I can now login through CLI when before I couldn't but lightdm and xfce have no functionality. I've looked at xorg's log stored in .local and it mentions something about a module from nvidia not being loaded properly. When I have nvidia related issues I'll uninstall nvidia until an update comes along where I can use it again with functionality but even with the nvidia package removed I still can't use lightdm or xorg. Also I tried rolling back packages which were updated and that didn't work either.

Update: I've got sddm to work but it gives me the same login error I originally shared prior. It'll also automatically log me into root as well which is strange but I cant login to my regular user without it saying "login failed"