On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 09:54 +1100, Jake Anderson wrote:
> > As an aside: Ubuntu is "different" in how it deals with users with
> > regards to other distros I've encountered. Case in point, I changed the
> > root password on my machine here using the passwd command. It changed it
> > for everything but the update manager?? I then tried changing the
> > password with the user account GUI, but same result. I haven't spent the
> > time to figure it out, all I know is whenever I enter a root password I
> > enter the changed one, except when the update manager asks for it,
> > bizarre...
> >
> > TTYL
> >   
> 
> Keep in mind that by default ubuntu has no "root" user. Or rather the 
> password is randomly set and the account is disabled for login.
> see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

Yup, and it's the first thing I disable (or enable depending on which
way you look at things) on a new install. There are times I NEED root,
typing sudo before every single command gets VERY trying... :)

> You use sudo as yourself to do administrative tasks. The "enter 
> password" thing that jumps up on screen is gksudo its asking for you 
> password so it can run the command with sudo graphically. You can give 
> root a password if you wish otherwise you can sudo su when you want to 
> be the admin for a while.

So, on my machine I have a root user, I've passwd'd it with a new
password, and that's fine, except gksudo still has the old one! :) Any
idea why that would be? Is it possible that gksudo doesn't look for the
password of root, but of the first user account? I should try changing
my user account password and see if it affects gksudo?

Thanks, TTYL
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