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Re: sudo is acting up



On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 04:38:40AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> Yesterday I changed the root password on my machine, but sudo will only
> function with the OLD password for authentication.  'su -' and gnome-sudo will
> only accept the new password, but regular old sudo on the command line doesn't
> even recognize the new password.

Let me ask the stupid question:  doesn't sudo want *your* password
(that is, the one you used to log on as non-root), not the root
password?
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Carl Fink             carl@fink.to        
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