firestarter bad password

Simon Taplin simon.taplin at gmail.com
Wed Dec 29 16:25:14 UTC 2004


David wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 10:29:45AM +0100, Bo Rosen wrote:
> 
>>Den Tue, 28 Dec 2004 17:36:48 +1100 skrev David:
>>
>>I'm not sure, but I can guess. Check that the menu command starts with
>>gksudo which asks for your password, not the root password.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>	Bo
> 
> 
> Problem solved... 
> 
> The menu command was:
> gksu /usr/sbin/firestarter
> 
> I changed it to:
> gksudo /usr/sbin/firestarter
> 
> and now it works fine.
> 
> thanks.

The other option is to enable the root account. Enableing the root 
account and then typing in root's password is what firestarter is 
technically looking for.

Simon





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