I’m following through a guide that requires me to create a new system user. The guide is this, but I don’t think it’s relevant.
The problem I encounter is this: at some point, I’m required to have sudo privileges to do some of this stuff as NEWUSER, but if I try to use sudo as NewUser I’m prompted the following error message:
/usr/lib/security-misc/pam-abort-on-locked-password: INFO: Password for user "newuser" is locked.
/usr/lib/security-misc/pam_tally2-info: WARNING: 3 failed login attempts.
/usr/lib/security-misc/pam_tally2-info: Login will be blocked after 50 attempts.
/usr/lib/security-misc/pam_tally2-info: You have 47 more attempts before unlock procedure is required.
Sorry, try again.
/usr/lib/security-misc/pam-abort-on-locked-password: INFO: Password for user "newuser" is locked.
/usr/lib/security-misc/pam_tally2-info: WARNING: 4 failed login attempts.
/usr/lib/security-misc/pam_tally2-info: Login will be blocked after 50 attempts.
/usr/lib/security-misc/pam_tally2-info: You have 46 more attempts before unlock procedure is required.
Sorry, try again.
/usr/lib/security-misc/pam-abort-on-locked-password: INFO: Password for user "newuser" is locked.
/usr/lib/security-misc/pam_tally2-info: WARNING: 5 failed login attempts.
/usr/lib/security-misc/pam_tally2-info: Login will be blocked after 50 attempts.
/usr/lib/security-misc/pam_tally2-info: You have 45 more attempts before unlock procedure is required.
sudo: 3 incorrect password attempts
I’m never asked for any password. Any idea?