Manjaro Password Problem

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Welcome, here @HmonsterG,

your issue bmight be linked to PAM issue.

[Unstable Update] 2020-08-22 - Pamac, Mate 1.24.1, GCC 10.2, Python, Haskell

So this was pretty straightforward. But just to elaborate for others On my system I needed to edit /etc/pam.d/system-login From this #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_tally2.so auth required pam_shells.so auth requisite pam_nologin.so auth include system-auth account required pam_tally2.so account required pam_access.so account required pam_nologin.so account include system-auth password include system-auth session optional pam_lo…

[Stable Update] 2020-08-28 - Can't login anymore

Ok it appears that a file named .pam_environment was present under my home directory. I deleted this file and login is now successful.

Help with PAM and Stable Update 2020-08-28

Here are my own copies of the three files. I have not made any modifications to them, and I have not had any login problems since the update. /etc/pam.d/system-login #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_shells.so auth requisite pam_nologin.so auth include system-auth account required pam_access.so account required pam_nologin.so account include system-auth password include system-auth session optional pam_loginuid.so session optional pam_keyini…

This is maybe the most helpful link:

[Testing Update] 2020-08-21 - Kernels, PAM, PAMBASE, KDE-git, Deepin, Pamac, Nvidia 450.66

Known issues and solutions This is a wiki post; please edit as necessary. Please, consider subscribing to the Testing Updates Announcements RSS feed PAM and PAMBASE got updated, which might prevent you from login Due to updates from pambase and pam you might take care about any .pacnew files in /etc/pam.d as for example pam_tally, pam_tally2 and pam_cracklib got deprecated. Read in the ArchWiki about managing those files. Typical issue: For recovery, it is enough to boot with kernel opti…

You probably have to look for the mentioned .pacnew files.