Re: Password problems
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 08:15:07PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:32:56 -0600
> "Russell L. Harris" <rlharris@oplink.net> wrote:
> > * 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?
>
> There is no root account on this box. It has always asked me for my
> password as I am the first user. As I said this business didn't start
> until a changed my password.
Unix dosen't work without a root account.
However, this sounds like a bug in Synaptic. It should _not_ be storing
the previous password but only using a mechanism that will hash what you
type and compare it with the password database.
Doug.
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