"sudo" command is saying my password is wrong when it isn't

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Hello everybody.
In the terminal, when I type sudo pacman -Syu or any command involving sudo it says it’s wrong, but I’m pretty sure it’s correct. And occasionally when I restart my computer, it sometimes accepts the password that once said wrong
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However, the password of su is accepted, only my password (of the normal user, I think it’s like this) is the one that says it’s wrong.
How do I solve it??

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As a root, I did

# faillock --user $my_user_name

And it came

faillock: No user name supplied.
Usage: faillock [--dir /path/to/tally-directory] [--user username] [--reset]

Then I tried
# faillock --user $my_user_name --reset
But it did nothing, just came back to root user

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You’re supposed to replace $my_user_name with your actual user name.

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yes, I did it # faillock --user $antojaro and then # faillock --user $antojaro --reset

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And I rebooted de laptop, to see if something change, but the problem keeps.

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the username alone.

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… or you use $USER instead.

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You but not as root I guess?

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Even after su, $USER remains the same.

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Ok, now I get it.
faillock --user antojaro
Came

antojaro:
When                Type  Source                                           Valid
2021-07-27 21:31:02 TTY                                                        V
2021-07-27 21:31:02 TTY                                                        V
2021-07-27 21:31:04 TTY                                                        V

Then I type
faillock --user antojaro --reset
And it back to root user, so I exit to login at normal user. I test again sudo pacman -Syu and its works. Thank u.

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Its weird.
I’m sorry again, just a little while ago, the error “sudo password is wrong” came again when I typed in the terminal sudo pacman -Syu chromium , and to be able to use it again I had to repeat the same faillock process .
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Don’t you have a way to make it permanent, without having to access “su” all the time?

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Not if you su -.

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You are right, it’s worth to understand the difference, described for example here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Su

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The reason could be this, first i logged with su only, and not with su - .
But with the booth, the problem still remain. (Or I gonna need reboot the machine???)
(sorry for my language, I’m a portuguese speaker)

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Try again and reboot directly afterwards. Is $USER in wheel group?

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I’m a newbie honestly, this $USER in wheel group I don’t know what it is.

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Just enter

groups

and you know.

Please, start using to search for answers in the web, certain info are really easy to find, especially in Manjaro or Arch wiki:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Users_and_groups

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groups
sys network power lp wheel autologin antojaro

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Ok, thanks, I will do that. (But I search before, and didn´t find a solution, just now)