On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 01:41:54PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have run across an oddity in Gnome's behavior when running admin tools
> from the gui.
>
> If I run any of the tools found in the Desktop -> Administration menu,
> explicitly from that menu, Gnome asks me for the root password. I enter
> the root password and it tells me I entered an invalid password.
> However, if I run any of those same admin tools from the Applications ->
> Debian -> Apps -> System menu Gnome accepts the root password and they
> run just fine.
>
> Does anyone know what is going on with this? I do the vast majority of
> my work from the bash prompt, but on occasion I will want to just look
> at a setting and will choose to do that from the gui tools. Although
> this problem is easily worked around I'm stumped as to why this is
> happening.
>
> BTW, this behavior started when I changed the behavior of sudo from the
> Debian default of not requiring a password to requiring one. I've since
> reversed that to see if that is responsible for the change in behavior
> in the gui, but it has made no difference whatsoever.
>
Sudo usually requires your password, not root's. That's how it works on
Ubuntu, where the root password is usually disabled.
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