Ubuntu wierdness

[Matt Galster]

So, the root password when you're looking at a terminal doing su or
whatever is as you would expect, and the password when looking at the
gnome utilities will be the user's password for sudo, no?

MEG

On 8/14/07, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I thought Ubuntu defaulted to not having a ROOT password at all (none
> works not nothing works), but using SUDO (which prompts for YOUR
> password). Did you subvert that?
>
> On 8/14/07, Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
> > Boston Linux and Unix user group
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> > PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
> >
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