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Setting steam and desktop user passwords
Michael DeGuzis edited this page Jun 15, 2017
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In order to use elevated privileges requiring use of "sudo," the desktop users password must be set. Additionally, performing actions as the "steam" user requires a password to be set in order to use su -
(switching to the home environment of user: steam). All actions must be performed from a terminal window.
This can be enabled in Steam > Settings > Display > Interface. The official support article from Valve can be found here.
This is located by either:
- Clicking "Activities" (top left) in desktop mode, and typing gnome-terminal
- Navigating to
/usr/share/applications
in a file browser and opening "Terminal"
passwd
sudo passwd steam