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[Rapael Morcha]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 02:00:43PM -0300, Allan Valeriano wrote:
> Getting a ride on this question.
> When I install ubuntu, it asks me to choose a user name and a password. I
> assumed that this is going to be the same pass as the su will use, cuz
> ubuntu doesn't ask me another pass for the root user.

It should ask for root user's password while installing IIRC.

> After that, I tried to change the root pass by the interface, but I'm still
> having problems with that.
> When I type "sudo command", it accepts only the old pass, but when I type
> "su", it accepts only the new pass.

In ubuntu there are two types of users 1) Normal user 2) Super user

>
> Does anybody knows why could it be happening?

$ whoami
raphael

$ su another_normal_user
enter_password_for_another_normal_user

$ su root
enter_password_for_root_user
$ whoami
root

$ sudo some_program
enter_password_for_normal_user

HTH