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 … However, the password of su is accepted, only m…

You but not as root I guess? [image] madeiraantonio97: As a root, I did

Even after su, $USER remains the same.

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 …

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 ac…

You are right, it’s worth to understand the difference, described for example here: [image] Learn Difference Between "su" and "su -" Commands in Linux [image] Difference Between su and su - Command in Linux - GeeksforGeeks A Computer Science portal f…

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)

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

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

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

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

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Wollie 27 July 2021 21:02 14

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

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