Bug 425204

Summary:	Installer of neon unstable 20.04 creates a passwordless user account without administrator privileges
Product:	[KDE Neon] neon	Reporter:	Patrick Silva <bugseforuns>
Component:	Live/Install images	Assignee:	Neon Bugs <neon-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	esa1975, jr, neon-bugs-null, r.griff444, sitter
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Neon
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Patrick Silva 2020-08-10 21:16:22 UTC

SUMMARY
Today I installed neon unstable based on ubuntu 20.04 and I can't start plasma with the password typed during install process. I can start plasma without a password but User kcm indicates that I'm using a default user account and I can't do anything that requires administrator privileges.
I have downloaded neon-unstable-20200810-1849.iso

Comment 1 Eric Adams 2020-08-11 01:18:57 UTC

I can confirm this behavior with the same ISO file. I was able to perform a recovery boot, add a password for my user as well as adding it to the sudo group. Once I rebooted everything else seems to be working.

Comment 2 Robert Griffiths 2020-08-29 17:14:57 UTC

I think this was Calamares bug #1489. All ISOs were being fixed on Friday 21st Aug and I have seen no reported problems since (forum, reddit).