On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:35:04 -0900 Siraaj Khandkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 16 Feb 2008, at 16:54, Douglas A. Tutty 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. > > > > I think this guy uses Ubuntu, which disables root login by default > (passwd -l root) > No I run Debian Sid on this partition. > > 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. > > > > It may also be that gksu saved the old password in keychain, and he > set the keychain's password to be the same as the old password, and > now it's just asking him for the password to the keychain. > That could be. I don't know. All I do know is GTK apps such as Synaptic will only accept the old password. Cheers -- Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
