Password question.

[Steven Vollom]

Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Monday 24 November 2008, Steven Vollom wrote:
>   
>> Dear Bruce,
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> steven at Studio25:~$ xhost +
>> access control disabled, clients can connect from any host
>> steven at Studio25:~$
>>
>> I did not get a chance to type in the new Login password, which I
>> suppose it wanted.
>>
>> Did I just make a terminal mistake?  in the worst sense.
>>     
>
> Have you set a root passwd yet?
>
>   
yes