Re: Password problems
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:54:33 -0500
"Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> 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.
Sorry, what I meant was I have not enabled root on this machine.
>
> 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.
>
But it's not just Synaptic as it turns out...any program that uses the
gtk? version of sudo (gtksudo?) wants the old password.
Cheers
--
Frank
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