There’s no ‘oem’ user in /etc/passwd. There is a ‘beelink’ user. So clearly this isn’t just an untouched oem install.
‘beelink’ is the only user that shows up in the GUI System Settings > Users. It’s an Administrator. This still won’t allow me to do anything root-y while logged in as beelink.
sudo requires a password I don’t have.
Has anyone else bought a Beelink SER5 pre-install box? Can you tell me the default passwords they used for ‘beelink’ and ‘root’?
I wonder what they did. That doesn’t work. I can’t even get back in when it times out and locks the screen. Can’t change the password for the ‘beelink’ user from the console without the current password. Can’t add users.
Thanks for the help. Beelink said there were no passwords set but I booted from a thumbdrive with the minimal Plasma setup, mounted the SSD and looked at /etc/shadow.
Root had a password hash and so did the ‘beelink’ default user. I edited the text to remove the hash and put x in root, and removed the hash from ‘beelink’.
I rebooted from the system SSD, set a password for ‘beelink’ and I have a machine. I can add and change users, sudo, etc. so everything works like it’s supposed to.
Props to you at Manjaro for making it really easy to find and use the ISO I needed to create the boot thumbdrive!
It appears to be a clean KDE Plasma install of Manjaro other than the username 1001 ‘beelink’. I used to administer Solaris and Linux machines, and bought this one to freshen up on Linux again, so I’m reasonably comfortable messing around and seeing what happens.
Is there any reason I should flash it again, now that I got in and it works?
I just ran into the same problem as @BarryD , when I booted my new SER5 5600H for the 1st time.
It booted directly into the beelink account.
The password for the beelink account is not beelink or 123. (or 1234 or 12345 for that matter).
I’m going to do what BarryD did, and boot from a flash drive and edit the /etc/shadow, thanks for the notes @BarryD .
@spikerguy I’m mostly replying here to say me too, and possibly help others who run into this. I’ll reply again if I’m still having issues after my boot from usb.
I had a discussion with the beelink warehouse team, found out they were using the wrong image to flash at the factory. So they had to entry login and password for it.
I will post the oem image if you want to run beelink branded manjaro os
Thanks, I’m all set for now. I appreciate the quick reply! Nice to know I can ask for the image if I end up finding I want it!
I had a bootable kubuntu usb, which I used to mount the root and all I had to do was edit /etc/passwd and change the beelink:x:... to beelink::... (ie remove the x in the password field), which gives the user no password. Reboot manjaro and I used passwd to set the password to beelink for now. Just so it doesn’t have no password.