Re: Password problems
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:35:04 -0900
Siraaj Khandkar <sirconquer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 16 Feb 2008, at 16:54, Douglas A. Tutty 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.
> >
>
> I think this guy uses Ubuntu, which disables root login by default
> (passwd -l root)
>
No I run Debian Sid on this partition.
> > 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.
> >
>
> It may also be that gksu saved the old password in keychain, and he
> set the keychain's password to be the same as the old password, and
> now it's just asking him for the password to the keychain.
>
That could be. I don't know. All I do know is GTK apps such as
Synaptic will only accept the old password.
Cheers
--
Frank
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