On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:54:33 -0500 "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 08:15:07PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:32:56 -0600 > > "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080216 17:21]: > > > > > > > > I changed my password using passwd...and now some apps want the > > > > old password...others want the new one! > > > > > > > > For example when I do sudo aptitude update in a terminal sudo > > > > will only accept the new password...however if I run > > > > Synaptic...it will accept only the old password. What's going > > > > on here and how can it be fixed ? > > > > > > Perhaps synaptic is asking for the password of the normal user -- > > > not the password of root -- in order to access the keyring? > > > > There is no root account on this box. It has always asked me for > > my password as I am the first user. As I said this business didn't > > start until a changed my password. > > Unix dosen't work without a root account. Sorry, what I meant was I have not enabled root on this machine. > > However, this sounds like a bug in Synaptic. It should _not_ be > storing the previous password but only using a mechanism that will > hash what you type and compare it with the password database. > But it's not just Synaptic as it turns out...any program that uses the gtk? version of sudo (gtksudo?) wants the old password. Cheers -- Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
