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Re: Password problems



* Frank McCormick <fmccormick@videotron.ca> [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...it will accept
> only the old password. What's going on here and how can it be fixed ?

Perhaps synaptic is asking for the password of the normal user -- not
the password of root -- in order to access the keyring?

RLH


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