Problems with network-admin on Hoary

[Magnus Therning]

On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 07:56:05PM +1000, David wrote:
>On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 10:05:49AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
>> I'm having strange problems with network-admin on Hoary. No matter if I
>> start it from the menu or from the command line it complains that the
>> password is wrong. It displays its window and then a dialogue pops up.
>> AFAICS that means the password is correct, otherwise I wouldn't get
>> past (gk)sudo, right?
>
>silly question.. but are you trying to open the networking panel from
>your original install user? or some user that you have created later?
>If the latter, do you have appropriate access? The defaults for
>subsequent users are very restrictive (correctly, in my view).
>
>If you try to open a root terminal, does the same password work?

Not a silly question at all.

I'm doing all of the above with the original "install user". Yes, my
sudo is set up properly, and opening a root terminal works (just as
every invocation of sudo from a regular terminal).

/M

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