stuck in SDDM because I only have a root user

[south maple]

can I use liveCD to create a new user? I can't login to SDDM because I have no user other than root. and I can't access TTY for some reason I don't understand.. and I can't boot into recovery mode from grub..

[young flame]

Tty, log in as root, add a user

[noble warren]

press ALT + SHIFT + F3
if that doesn't work, press ALT + CTRL + F3
log in as root
run adduser [username]
run passwd [username]
run reboot

profit

[young flame]

probably want a bit more than just add user username

useradd -mG wheel <username> -If you don't want the user to be able to sudo remove wheel, if you do keep wheel and uncomment the first line that says 'wheel' in /etc/sudoers
passwd <username>
And instead of reboot just do systemctl restart SDDM

I mean can reboot if you want but, may as well just restart SDDM

@south maple you can do the above from chrooting in if you prefer for some reason, but there's no need. TTY is your friend, I didn't give more detail before because I was on my phone, didn't want to type the commands from there

[noble warren]

why -mG and not -aG ?

😒

[young flame]

I can’t remember what m and a do, I’m just used to copying and pasting at this point 😂

I’ll have to look that up after my film

[noble warren]

mG sets primary group

mainGroup

i think

try using aG, for appendGroup

[young flame]

Is there any practical difference for systems with single users?

[noble warren]

compatibility mostly

give me one second actually, i'll get back to you with hard facts and science

@young flame nvm we both dont know what we are talking about apparently 🐱

but yes, you want to use -aG. for compatibility you typically want your main user's main group to be the user's own group. ie if your user is vegancookies, your main group should also be vegancookies, because it is your main group that determines group ownership on the files you create.

[young flame]

That makes more sense

[noble warren]

i am really struggling to write this sentence because dyslexia but hopefully you understand what i mean

[noble warren]

@south maple

[dusty spindle]

because then the user won't have a home directory?

[noble warren]

@dusty spindle