Ubuntu wierdness

[Jerry Feldman]

Yesterday I changed the root password on Ubuntu because I thought that
someone else was going to pick up the computer and install Windows XP,
but he decided not to come which is fine, and I decided to install
VMWare server from the Ubuntu commercial archives. However, my new root
password no longer works from the GUI (GNOME). I can bring up a virtual
terminal and log into root fine. The new root password is 8 characters
consisting of upper, lower, and numbers.=20

Note that I had powered down the system from the time I reset the
passwords. As I mentioned, the password works fine logging in to a
virtual terminal as root, just not for administrative tasks from GNOME.=20

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Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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