Re: Password problems

[Frank McCormick <fmccormick@videotron.ca>]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:29:08 -0800
Alan Ianson <agianson@gmail.com> 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 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 ?
> 
> Have you logged out of your session and logged back in? Sometimes
> that will do the trick in a case like that, sometimes not.

  I have logged in and out...rebooted and used a few choice words...and
the situation hasn't changed. 

Cheers

-- 
Frank