Re: Password problems
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:31:01 -0600
Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
> Jonathan Doe 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 ?
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
> My gut instinct is that you're using some sort of keychain-like
> system unwittingly, and when you changed your password, you did it
> via a mechanism that did not update the keychain-like system. I'm
> unfamiliar with what such systems might be available on Debian, but
> it seems like KDE has some sort of "keycrypt" or something or other
> that does something like this.
?? All I use is pgp for signing...nothing weird on this machine.
Cheers
--
Frank
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