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

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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 .
…
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)

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I miss users. Enter

su -
gpasswd -a antojaro users
exit
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Hello again @Wollie, I’m sorry for the late (different times from our countries). Unfortunately, it doens’t solved to. I will download de ISO and reinstall the distro again, (hoping that it solve).
Thank u, for the help.

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If you care to search before you ask you would find plenty issues on the subject.

And using the search word combo kde password would give a long list.

One recommendation I am used to make is to use a different password for the root user and your user - I think I will begin to recommend to disable the root user - simply because you will rarely need to use root as the first user created on Manjaro is always belonging to the wheel group.

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thanks for the tips @linux-aarhus , I will search deep.

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I am kinda new to linux, so if u can access a prompt as root, why dont you use the passwd command? i mean thats what you do to set a password the first time when an user is created. Soo giv it a shot ig? Once again i am a noob. The command would be something like

passwd antojaro

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I try to change the root user password (with sudo passwd), but that doens’t solved to.

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So, I gonna search all about “pacman password” and similars on Forum, if I can’t find a solution, I will reinstall the system, with the same password to user an root next time,

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Even after having done a fresh installation of Manjaro-Plasma, the problem with the “sudo” command persists.
And this time at installation, I used the same password for “root” and for normal user.