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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 > http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 > PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > -- Bill n1vux-WYrOkVUspZo at public.gmane.org bill.n1vux-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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