Password question.

[Bruce Marshall]

On Monday 24 November 2008, Steven Vollom wrote:
> I changed my login password to the nightmare.  Then I typed in a
> terminal xhost +, next I typed in su, then I typed in em, because that
> was my password for the terminal, It did not accept it.  I reentered
> xhost + and got the following:


The password you should use after the 'su' would be the root passwd you set 
with the passwd command.