Password question.

[Steven Vollom]

Ignazio Palmisano wrote:
> Steven Vollom wrote:
>   
>> Bruce Marshall wrote:
>>     
>>> On Monday 24 November 2008, Steven Vollom wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> My understanding was there is a difference between user and root.  I
>>>> have always been referred to steven and user.  I never thought about my
>>>> being the only one on my computer so that perhaps my password was root.  
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> No, your steven password is NOT the root password.    steven + <steven's 
>>> passwd>  allows you to use SUDO to issue commands AS ROOT.
>>>
>>> You need to grasp this concept before we can procede.
>>>   
>>>       
>> I don't know what to do, Bruce.  I have reread it several times, I can't 
>> see what you are saying.  What can ROOT do that SUDO cannot do?  My 
>> password made SUDO work.  I know that it is me who is in error, it just 
>> doesn't seem logical as I know the word Logical.
>>     
>
> Your user "steven" can do anything root can do, and the password it 
> needs to do that is the 37 char monster. I've just run the following 
> test on my Kubuntu virtual machine:
>
> passwd ignazio
>
> and changed the password to testme1 (which was just complex enough for 
> passwd not to complain)
>
> then with the same command:
>
> passwd ignazio
>
> I changed it back to what it was before, so it IS possible for you to 
> change your supersecure password to a slightly more friendly one. Just 
> try one longer than 6 chars with a number in it.
>
> Side effect of this: to use sudo you will not have to type a 37 char 
> password any more, after changing it to a shorter one. This should 
> simplify the original problem (if I understood it correctly, you want a 
> terminal with root privileges because using sudo forced you to use the 
> long password and that was a pain).
>
> HTH,
> I.
>
>
>
>   
Thanks Ignazio,  I have already done that.  It will be difficult to 
remember for a while, but there is no one here but me, and I wrote in on 
my desk.  It will work until I get my new computer working.  I just have 
to remember I put it there and that I have a new password.  I would like 
to tell everybody the new password, it would make you all laugh, but 
there is a little, very little security with it.  Shouldn't take a 
cracker 60 seconds.

This must have been a nightmare for all who followed it.  But  there is 
something that was critical for me in getting this done, and I still 
haven't been able to be understood.  I have a friend that has a lot of 
patience.  I will try to get him to a point where he understands what I 
need, then I will have him word a post.  I wish my mind would work like 
yours.  You all seem to be on the same page, and I don't even seem to be 
in the same book.  But I will get it.  I have made such progress this 
past week.  I am just thrilled again.

Cudos, Cheers, Ciao Bello, and Cordially,

Steven

Steven