On 16 Feb 2008, at 19:46, Frank McCormick wrote:
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.
There I go assuming again, my bad! :-)
I did totally forget that t
On 17 Feb 2008, at 04:46, Frank McCormick wrote:
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:15:54 -0900
Siraaj Khandkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 16 Feb 2008, at 19:46, Frank McCormick wrote:
It may also be that gksu saved the old password in keychain, and he
set the keychain's password to be the same as
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:58:55 +0200
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 08:44:10AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
>
> > > Did you run 'passwd' or 'sudo passwd'?
> >
> > I ran passwd...as I was only changing my password.
>
> Of course, but I thought maybe by habi
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:33:17 -0500
"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 08:50:45AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:40:03 +0530
> > Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > gksudo ls
> > > That should prompt you for yo
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:24:13AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> >On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 09:38:03PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
> >>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, Fr
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 08:50:45AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:40:03 +0530
> Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > gksudo ls
> > That should prompt you for your current user password (if configured
> > so in /etc/sudoers)
>
>
>Accepts old password.
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 08:44:10AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > Did you run 'passwd' or 'sudo passwd'?
>
> I ran passwd...as I was only changing my password.
Of course, but I thought maybe by habit you could have run 'sudo passwd'
which would have enabled your root account. BTW, did you
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:40:03 +0530
Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please try the following from a terminal in gnome:
>
> gksu ls
> That should prompt you for the root password and should fail if the
> root account does not have a password.
It fails on any password. As I said ro
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:15:54 -0900
Siraaj Khandkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 16 Feb 2008, at 19:46, Frank McCormick wrote:
> >>
> >> 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 j
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:13:07 +0200
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 09:40:37PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
>
> > > So what was the command to change the password when there is no
> > > root account?
> >
> > Passwd is how I change passwords.
>
> Did you
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 09:40:37PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > So what was the command to change the password when there is no root
> > account?
>
> Passwd is how I change passwords.
Did you run 'passwd' or 'sudo passwd'?
Regards,
Andrei
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On Saturday 16 February 2008 09:51:08 pm Frank McCormick wrote:
> From the desktop it's being run as gksudo synaptic. In a terminal
> sudo synaptic accepts the new password. I'll have to wait 15 minutes
> before trying gksudo synaptic :)
Since it would appear to only happen with gksudo, I suppo
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:55:01 +0530
Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Frank McCormick wrote:
> >
> > I'll have to get back to you. Its midnight here and I can't wait
> > for the last sudo to expire .
> >
>
> You can set the timestamp_timeout option in sudoers to 0 while
> testing.
Frank McCormick wrote:
I'll have to get back to you. Its midnight here and I can't wait for
the last sudo to expire .
You can set the timestamp_timeout option in sudoers to 0 while testing.
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find
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:40:13 -0900
Siraaj Khandkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 16 Feb 2008, at 13:59, Frank McCormick wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > 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
On 16 Feb 2008, at 19:46, Frank McCormick wrote:
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
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:17:44 +0530
Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Frank McCormick wrote:
> >> Check your passwd and shadow files and make sure they are in order.
> >
> > I had a look at thembut what as I looking for?
>
> Probably two entries for the same UID. If user1 and u
Frank McCormick wrote:
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:35:04 -0900
Siraaj Khandkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 keychai
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:31:01 -0600
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jonathan Doe wrote:
> >> 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 t
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:00:00 -0700
Jonathan Doe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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...howev
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:
>
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 09:38:03PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
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" <[EM
On 16 Feb 2008, at 13:59, Frank McCormick wrote:
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 ac
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
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 09:38:03PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
> 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 PROTE
Frank McCormick wrote:
Check your passwd and shadow files and make sure they are in order.
I had a look at thembut what as I looking for?
Probably two entries for the same UID. If user1 and user2 have the same
UIDs, then it is possible the the password for one name was changed, but
th
Jonathan Doe wrote:
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 go
> 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
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:32:02 +0530
Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Frank McCormick wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> I
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:54:01 +1100
Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Frank McCormick shared this with us all:
> >--} On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:32:56 -0600
> >--} "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >--}
> >--} > * Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080216 17:21]
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]:
Raj writes:
> I am yet to come across a linux system without a root account.
Ubuntu systems have a root account but root logins are disabled (you can
easily enable them, of course).
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Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Unix dosen't work without a root account.
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.
Even if synaptic caches the passw
Frank McCormick wrote:
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.
I am yet to come across a linux system without a root account.
Neither did I see an app cache the use
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Frank McCormick shared this with us all:
>--} 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 t
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
> > > pas
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 aptitud
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:29:08 -0800
Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat February 16 2008 02:59:31 pm Frank McCormick wrote:
> > 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
* 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...i
On Sat February 16 2008 02:59:31 pm Frank McCormick wrote:
> 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...
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Try checking your PAM config. Did you change config files while upgrading?
If so there is a good chance that md5 passwords were enabled but now are not.
- --Warren
On Saturday 03 February 2001 21:37, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 03, 2
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 10:02:23PM -0500, Keith & Cecile Schooley wrote:
> This is going to sound like an asinine problem, but here goes ...
>
> My machine seems to have forgotten my password.
>
> Yes, I said my machine. Not me. I've had it burned into my consciousness,
> through booting up abo
Try rebooting and at the LILO prompt (Hold down Shift if necessary to get
the prompt), type in
linux init=/bin/sh
that should drop you straight to a root prompt, no ifs ands or buts (as
long as /bin/sh exists.) reboot again when you've fixed your password.
- Jimmy Kaplowitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On
Check the "# /sbin/getty invocations ..." section in /etc/inittab.
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On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Chris Brown wrote:
> We just did a fresh install of slink on one of our machines, and set
> the root password just fine. The install finished, we played around
> with it for a little while, then reboote
On 30-Mar-99 Chris Brown wrote:
> We just did a fresh install of slink on one of our machines, and set
> the root password just fine. The install finished, we played around
> with it for a little while, then rebooted. The problem is that when
> it reboots it doesn't require us to login! It g
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