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

submitted 1 year ago by Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net to c/nixos@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] lelgenio@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

Also, the lockscreen should be disabled by default, it should not lock due to inactivity.

[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] lelgenio@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year 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?

[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year 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?