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:
> >>
> >> 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

After the 'su', did you type in the passwd you set for root?

And what do you mean by 'then I typed in em, because that
> >> was my password for the terminal'?

What 'terminal' and why did it need a password?   Aren't we talking about a 
Konsole window under KDE???    It should not need a password just to get the 
window.   That is where you should be issuing the 'xhost +'  and the  'su'