Editing xorg.conf to support a Wacom tablet, and permissions

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 16/10/05, Dave M G <martin at autotelic.com> wrote:
>
> > By default, the *first* user created has administrative privileges, so
> > that'd be *your* password.
>
> That is what I thought was the case. However, whenever I input my
> password, I get this response:
>
> su: Authentication failure
>
> I have gone over it a few times to make sure I'm putting in the correct
> password.
>
> Is there possibly some other reason why my authentication would fail?
>
> I understand I probably want to use "sudo", but I'd also like to know
> why this authentication is failing?

I would go back in this thread and actually *read* the link the
previous person gave you. You can't use su because the root account is
locked. You *need* to use sudo. You can use su after unlocking the
root account, but you're not going to get there from here. You need to
understand sudo first.

-Eamonn