Re: Password problems

[Jonathan Doe <anonymous.jondoe@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 16 February 2008 09:51:08 pm Frank McCormick wrote:
>    From the desktop it's being run as gksudo synaptic. In a terminal
> sudo synaptic accepts the new password. I'll have to wait 15 minutes
> before trying gksudo synaptic :)

Since it would appear to only happen with gksudo, I suppose that you could 
take the approach of moving (or deleting) your ~/.gnome2 and ~/.gconf* 
directories and seeing if gksudo starts behaving.

Also, check out /etc/sudoers to make sure that you don't have anything 
strange.

In any case, this sounds very serious. A program is gaining root even though 
you are supplying an incorrect (in this case old) password.