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Re: Password discrepancies



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On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 09:59:10AM -0600, Brian Gonzales wrote:
> 1. If I 'su' at a command line, my root password works fine.
> 2. If I'm using KDE, I click on a Command Center icon, it prompts for a
> root password, it works fine.
> 3. If I'm in Gnome, I do the same and I get a 'bad password' dialog box.

This has been answered dozen times in the archives, please look before
leaping.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Gnome is doing the right thing.  Don't log in as root.  Especially
don't log in as root in X, KDE or Gnome.  Open a terminal emulator and
use su -m to get root in X.  This is safer.

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