On a clean install of Fedora 39 KDE Workstation the system fails to accept password for user at the graphical login screen in both X11 and Wayland. The view password icon is missing on the graphic presented. However, I can log in as the user from virtual consoles but I get a message “-- edward: /home/edward: change directory failed: Permission denied Logging in with home =”/“”. I can issue the command cd /home/edward and it works fine. I also can run /usr/bin/startx and get the graphical desktop up and everything seems to work fine. I’m not sure how to start wayland from command line. I have run ‘dnf update --refresh’ and it makes no difference when I restart the system. It seems to be a problem with some system control that I’m not capable of finding.
Any help appreciated!!
You can find out if your user is configured properly with echo $HOME which should show you home directory (/home/edward)
Something may have changed with selinux and be preventing access to the home directory.
I have seen notes about that happening. Once logged in and in your users home directory you may be able to recover with a simple command.
sudo touch /.autorelabel then reboot and wait for the system to relabel all the selinux context on the entire system for you. Following this, if it is in fact an selinux issue, it should return to normal operation.
Thanks, The $HOME variable was correct. The autorelabel seems to be the magic that worked.
Still I don’t understand why the KDE Graphical Login screen doesn’t give the ability to view the password you have entered. I always feel I may be being hacked when my screw up my password… I like being able to see what I have typed.
What if the password was displayed but someone who should not know it was able to view your screen? Can you think of the security breach that may happen? – and that your username may be responsible?
I don’t always view the password and I understand what you’re saying, but with secure passwords they are hard to remember and easy to screw up when typing. Maybe I’m just getting old!! My system is a desktop system in my home so not really worried about someone seeing me type my password. My wife is not the security threat I worry about.
Just saying!
If not worried about the environment a less complicated password may be permissible.
Writing it down is another way to remember it, but is discouraged for everyone.
At home a visitor or intruder may also be a risk if things are too simple.
I adopted a Password Manager like KeepassXC for many things, and created keys on USBDrives for my machines and other USB devices so I don’t have to remember much. May come in handy !
I use KeepassXC for financial, shopping, hobby sites but never tried it on a USB drive. Not sure how to use with initial login.
Sorry for the confusion. I use KeepassXC to store my Keys and Passwords. I use a USB drive and store a key there for me to open Computers & drives etc.
Is that for initial login?
It does on Fedora 40 with Plasma 6!