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Live environment lock screen can't login as nixos (Virtualbox VM, KDE Plasma) (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Working in a Virtualbox VM using the standard KDE version of the .iso. I get locked out due to inactivity during a live environment session. Trying to enter the empty password doesn't help me. How do I deal with this graciously?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

IIRC in the live environment, the password for the "nixos" user is also "nixos"

That was the first thing I tried.

TTY1(?) and what I see elsewhere say that the password is empty.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's empty by default: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/5defcb4b0d6c286e8b4b2869cf38efb4cdeb5bf4/nixos/modules/profiles/installation-device.nix#L31-L40

Can you login via the tty?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

IIRC, when I went into a TTY while on the lock screen, I was already working as the nixos user. Is that what you're asking?