I have the one default user “deck” in desktop mode. It looks like it’s set to a standard account type.

I can’t add a user or change this without a pop up asking “Authentication is required to change user data” and wanting “authenticating as root” password.

Leaving it blank fails. Putting in my sudo password that I have set and at this point double checked multiple times from within Konsole fails as well. I’ll go in Konsole and type “passwd” then I’ll type the current password and it will say “changing password for deck” and the change works fine. I’ll close Konsole, but still have the same issue outside of konsole. Entering a password fails when trying to modify user or update anything.

I can’t update anything on desktop now, and I can’t figure out what the heck the issue with it is.

Does anyone have a clue? Thanks

Edit\update: Tried a million things. Couldn’t get back root access. Made a steam OS boot image on a micro SD card and used it in the steam deck to re-install steam OS but keep my downloads\user files etc. This worked and got back “deck” as admin account as it should be. All better.