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thisismyusername

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Registered: 2020-09-01

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When I logon a tty instance it immediately asks for my sudo password

So I am attempting to log in on a tty, and it looks something like this :

Arch Linux (tty1)
hostname login: _

Password: _

Last Login at (Date) on (tty1)
[sudo] password for user: _

And I think because of this I am unable to use a DM to login

This just started and I have no idea why.

at first I thought it was a problem with my .zshrc but I deleted its contents and the error persisted.

Does anyone have any clues to what might be causing this? or where I could look to find more info?

Thanks.

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,047

Re: When I logon a tty instance it immediately asks for my sudo password

Have you configured any other startup files for that user or in /etc?  If you login as root can you reproduce the issue?  If yes if you create a new user can you reproduce the issue?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: When I logon a tty instance it immediately asks for my sudo password

Does it also happen if you run "sudo -k; zsh"? If so, run "sudo -k; zsh -x" which will trace the shell ops (and hopefully tell you where this comes from)
Do you have OMZ installed?

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thisismyusername

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Registered: 2020-09-01

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Re: When I logon a tty instance it immediately asks for my sudo password

Have you configured any other startup files for that user or in /etc?  If you login as root can you reproduce the issue?  If yes if you create a new user can you reproduce the issue?

I don't think I have configured any startup files for that user or in /etc. If I login as root I can not reproduce the issue, nor does the issue reappear when logging in with a different user.

Does it also happen if you run "sudo -k; zsh"? If so, run "sudo -k; zsh -x" which will trace the shell ops (and hopefully tell you where this comes from)
Do you have OMZ installed?

It does not happen when I run that command, and I do not have OMZ installed.

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,047

Re: When I logon a tty instance it immediately asks for my sudo password

# getent passwd $AFFECTEDUSERNAME

Check which shell that user will start as.  Assuming it is zsh see Zsh#Startup/Shutdown_files.