I am facing problem of authentication of password. extract of terminal is reproduced below:<br><br>sriranga@ubuntu:~$ cd tesseract-ocr-read-only-408/<br>sriranga@ubuntu:~/tesseract-<div>ocr-read-only-408$ su<br>
Password: <br>
su: Authentication failure<br>sriranga@ubuntu:~/tesseract-ocr-read-only-408$ <br><br>I used the<b><u> same password</u></b> for login purpose and authentication purposeĀ for installing, updating etc. and never faced any problem so far. Only problem started when I tried at terminal as su or sudo to go to root - error <br>
displayed as "authentication failure" as indicated above. I have not changed password from the date of installation of ubuntu9.04 till today. Request for valuable guidance how to overcome authentication failure or re-install has to be made? I am newbie to lunux and ubuntu.<br>
Kindly treat this as SOS.<br>With regards,<br>-sriranga(77yrsold)<br></div>