On Thursday 25 June 2015 10:42:50 Renaud  OLGIATI wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 10:12:40 -0400
>
> Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote:
> > I have seen this also. The 1st users passwd (sudo) was not
> > acceptable. For some reason its asking for the root passwd, and the
> > root passwd had never been setup as everything up to that point had
> > been done using sudo by the first user.  How it occurs I have no
> > clue, but a re-install,
>
> Have you tried to set a root password, with sudo passwd ?

No.  I tried that once, with a kubuntu install several years back, and it 
got so confused I had to reinstall.  Thank $DIETY for Amanda.

> Cheers,
>
> Ron.
> --
>                      When men are pure, laws are useless;
>                     when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
>                                       -- Benjamin Disraeli
>
>                    -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org --

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
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 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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