[Settings] Wants Password?

[bobo42813]

Hi, Ya all,

My Kubutu 17.10 is now asking for a password for updates. So I can upgrade to 18.10. Or any other ones.
But I never had one in the first place. There's only my wife and I here at home. So security I don't need.

Can anyone tell me how to solve this Problem?

Thank You,
Bob

[oldgeek]

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[oldgeek]

Did you install Kubuntu 17.10 yourself? If so, you had to have created a password. You won't need it to open Kubuntu if that's what you ticked (I never use a password to open my VM installations, for example), but you should not have been able to go past that page if you did not create a password after your user name. At least that is my understanding.

[bobo42813]

NO PW Wants a Password??

Did you install Kubuntu 17.10 yourself? If so, you had to have created a password. You won't need it to open Kubuntu if that's what you ticked (I never use a password to open my VM installations, for example), but you should not have been able to go past that page if you did not create a password after your user name. At least that is my understanding.

Well yes kbuntu 17.10 is installed and w/o a password. But does have my user name,Bob. Now it wants a password after months of NO PW??
WUZ UP?

Thank you,
bobo42813

[oshunluvr]

Guessing here: You must enter a password when you install, however, you can set it to log in without a password at boot up. If you enabled automatic updates at install time it might even update without you entering a password, and you never updated manually or have installed anything new since you set it up the first time - thus no password.

Any of this sound right?

You can setup your system to allow no password at all, but it's not trivial and may actually cause some things not to work. I suggest resetting your user password to something super-simple, write it on a post-it, and stick it on the computer.

if you can't remember what your password is, reboot and select "recovery mode" in grub. When you get to the root prompt, enter "passwd bob" and set a new password and reboot.

[bobo42813]

Guessing here: You must enter a password when you install, however, you can set it to log in without a password at boot up. If you enabled automatic updates at install time it might even update without you entering a password, and you never updated manually or have installed anything new since you set it up the first time - thus no password.

Any of this sound right?

You can setup your system to allow no password at all, but it's not trivial and may actually cause some things not to work. I suggest resetting your user password to something super-simple, write it on a post-it, and stick it on the computer.

if you can't remember what your password is, reboot and select "recovery mode" in grub. When you get to the root prompt, enter "passwd bob" and set a new password and reboot.

Hi, Thank you for your answer.

When I installed the OS. It has a cute little box that asks for your user name AND PW. But there is a check me box that says Log in w/o a PW. So I put in my user name and ticked that box.

I was able to do all things that required Administration Authorization. Until about two weeks ago. Now it wants a password that does not exist??

So I'm stiil hoping for a solution? But time is running out for me..

Again I Thank you,
bobo42813 A.K.A. Bob

[jpenguin]

Did you try just hitting OK? Oshunter is correct though.

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[oshunluvr]

I offered a solution.

[bobo42813]

Yes I did .

[GreyGeek]

Wants Password?

Then your solution is simple. Just do as oshunluver suggested and give “bob” a new, simple password. Then edit your KDE login and select login without a password.

[bobo42813]

Then your solution is simple. Just do as oshunluver suggested and give “bob” a new, simple password. Then edit your KDE login and select login without a password.

I will go back and do that again.

Thank you,
bobo42813

[bobo42813]

Guessing here: You must enter a password when you install, however, you can set it to log in without a password at boot up. If you enabled automatic updates at install time it might even update without you entering a password, and you never updated manually or have installed anything new since you set it up the first time - thus no password.

Any of this sound right?

You can setup your system to allow no password at all, but it's not trivial and may actually cause some things not to work. I suggest resetting your user password to something super-simple, write it on a post-it, and stick it on the computer.

if you can't remember what your password is, reboot and select "recovery mode" in grub. When you get to the root prompt, enter "passwd bob" and set a new password and reboot.

Seems I forgot to tell you I did that and here's the result if you can't remember what your password is, reboot and select "recovery mode" in grub. When you get to the root prompt, enter "passwd bob" and set a new password and reboot.

passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
passwd: password unchanged

I may just have to re-install? This is beginning to make me nutter than I already am !!

[GreyGeek]

Seems I forgot to tell you I did that and here's the result if you can't remember what your password is, reboot and select "recovery mode" in grub. When you get to the root prompt, enter "passwd bob" and set a new password and reboot.

passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
passwd: password unchanged

I may just have to re-install? This is beginning to make me nutter than I already am !!

Well, without your account password you can't add or remove software, and you can't run
sudo apt -f install
sudo dpkg --configure -a
repeatedly to repair your system.

Since attempting to change your password from the boot recovery menu fails because your system is obviously borked you have no other option. During your next install you might try using Btrfs so you can recover from most problems by rolling back a snapshot.

[oshunluvr]

This error "passwd: Authentication token manipulation error" can be caused by the filesystem being mounted read-only instead of read-write or the user is missing from the shadow file.

Try rebooting into recovery mode again and entering:

mount -o remount,rw /

then setting the password.

[GreyGeek]

Yup. I forgot about that!


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