newbie

[Carthik Sharma]

On 2/28/06, Paul Antuar <rautnap at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> hi, I'm brand new to Ubuntu having just installed it
> on an 'old' Celeron 1000 with 196Mb memory. Struck a
> problem almost straight away. The update(?) icon on
> the top launch bar tells me there's 50 updates to
> download but then asks for my root (?) password which
> I dutifully type in and then it tells me that it's the
> wrong password? When I open a console prompt and type
> su or sudo the password I give it is the same one!?
> Any ideas?

Not the root password, sudo, and the graphical counterpart, gksudo,
use the user's password. The default user (you) has admin privileges.
try using your password this time :)

Welcome!

Carthik.
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