The problem is, we still do not understand what exactly is not working for you. The authentication password is either the password for your account or the root password, depending on how YOU installed the system. And as far as i can remember from using ubuntu a couple of years ago, it works exactly the same there. And if you had to ask such a question (that question results of not even a basic understanding of permissions, user accounts, root and sudo concepts), linux is not for you. Probably not even ubuntu, and manjaro is a level above that.
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You set it up when you installed it, so I have no idea what you’re talking about. This is your 5th post and you have made zero effort to formulate what the hell you’re even talking about.
This isn’t babysitting forum. If you can’t do a basic search then Linux isn’t for you.
I have included one more link about resetting forgotten password. If there is another question, you have to ask it understandably.
No, you have been very unclear in explaining what you want to do.
And immediately start to complain about the type of answers you get after having being asked to clarify.
Dont complain - read @Teo 's link and go on with your day.
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No, forum is for problems you can’t find any solution for anywhere – meaning after doing necessary work yourself. But sure, keep posting until someone manages to spoon-feed you whatever you’re after.
So that is indeed your user password (or the root password if you set one separately). I will edit the topic title a little and the tags since this has nothing to do with grub or plasma specifically.
And i think it is time to call it a day and i will mark myself as a solution to facilitate future searches, because this here now is going nowhere…
Thanks for your positive contribution
Did you reset your password yet?
Can’t be a very pressing problem.
He has to post some more first.
Thanks very much for your help. At least you are really trying to help, while others just want to vent their liver torments at me. Now I understand that ‘authentication’ just means authentication by using the root password. This could have been clarified here from the outset but wasn’t, because status seeking people here didn’t want to do so for there own dubious reasons.
I coming back to using this distro after a couple of years away.
ZBE is the unicorn here in our Manjaro forum, don’t put everyone in the same corner.
On the otherside, i don’t see that your complain’s make any sense and i don’t see any logic behind it.
Your problem is solved and you didn’t payed any money for the help.
Edit:
Below you replied to yourself… 
Why didn’t you say that they meant the same thing instead of obfuscating the issue by grandstanding your perceived status here.
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Since I’m now the sycophant anyway 
I can as well say this:
I find his terse and not overly friendly and blunt communication style refreshing and effective.
Focus is on getting the people to help themselves instead of doing their work for them is my impression.
But some people are allergic to sarcasm and stuff like this happens …
ps:
I’d vote for all the now flagged posts to stay as they where
Don’t hide them.
You mean you used method 2 from here? In other words, edited the grub entry to boot into bash and changed the password using passwd. It’s the same on Manjaro.
You seem be talking about changing your user’s password…though it’s difficult to tell for sure, due to confusing and non standard terms…either way you use passwd.
“Install a password” is nonsense. All passwords are for authentication of some sort.
https://www.howtogeek.com/737563/what-is-root-on-linux/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Users_and_groups
Really? I find that difficult (but not impossible) to believe.
- You’ve explained yourself poorly using confusing and non standard terms
- You’ve replied to your own post
- @zbe’s first two posts were completely reasonable, it was you who started being rude
If this thread is anything to go on, its probably because you didn’t phrase your search terms correctly
I just did a quick search “manjaro change password”, here are the first 4 results:
- https://forum.manjaro.org/t/change-root-password/7733
- https://forum.manjaro.org/t/i-forgot-my-password/106361
- https://forum.manjaro.org/t/how-do-i-change-user-root-password-correctly/115717
- https://forum.manjaro.org/t/change-password-for-root/29985
passwd and using a live USB are common to all distros, as is editing grub menu entries (assuming they use grub).
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Nope, it’s not. The OP is clearly hostile and ignorant about UNIX. Perhaps they should read this little essay…
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