I tried using remote desktop to connect via xrdp just now and the login screen didn’t like my password. I ssh’ed into the machine, I had a private key setup so I didn’t need a password for that, but I couldn’t use sudo, it said my password was wrong. I was able to change my password with passwd, it accepted my password, but I wasn’t able to use sudo after that either. I googled and found a tip to start systemd-homed, and my password started working normally. journalctl shows the first systemd-homed logs being from when I started it manually, things were working yesterday without it apparently.
I had installed xrdp yesterday, stopped a vnc service, and installed the unifi service as well, I can’t think of anything else exciting that I did recently.
I’m a little irked by this and worried that I could be locked out of my machine. Any idea what happened and what I can do to prevent it going forward?