Re: Sudo

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Subject: Re: Sudo
From: Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 11:14:45 -0700
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On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 10:50:37 -0700
"Harold Hartley" <wheelie207@ownmail.net> wrote:

> when logged in as a user and type sudo or su apt-get update it then
> should ask for the root password and then does it’s thing.

Are you sure it's root's password that sudo wants? Try giving it your
user account's password.

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