Upgraded to 25.10.1, Admin User & Bultin Accounts Cannot Login

When I upgraded to 25.10.1 from 25.04.26, I found myself unable to login. I was greeted with an “Wrong username or password. Please try again” error, when the password was certainly not incorrect. After some trial and error, I managed to get into the machine by using the root with the one-time password generated using the CLI. From there I could login to the GUI, but I can’t change any users password due to an error “users: membership of this builtin group may not be altered.”

Before save:

After I hit save:

If I roll back the server to 25.04.26, I can log in with the default admin account’s old password from before I reset it, I get the same error when I try to change the password after logging in there. I can’t even create a new admin user, when I try to login with that new user it also gives me a “Wrong username or password. Please try again” error.

Dear god what the hell.

Try the documents. Maybe different method.

The login fails over ssh too. Keeps asking for the password like I was inputting it incorrectly.

Anyone got any suggestions :face_holding_back_tears: