Authentication failure??
Joel Goguen
jgoguen at jgoguen.ca
Sun Jan 13 01:50:38 UTC 2008
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Rick Barry wrote:
| When I try to use my password with su in the terminal
| I get an authentication error. This is the same
| password I log in with when I start the computer, I've
| always used the same password...
| What's my problem?
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Usage of 'su' is disabled in Ubuntu by default. Instead, use 'sudo
<command>' and enter your password there. See
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo for more information.
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Joel Goguen
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