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sudo password prob in migration from another gnu&linux

Asked by Lilwiz

While logged in as a user, I cannot install updates. Even though I know the root password and enter it when prompted the updater says it is incorrect. Ran into the same issue installing the flash player. I am an experience unix sys admin, and have run Fedora for some years. What's wrong here?

Also, I cannot login to the gui desktop as root. That also says 'Wrong Password'

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Best Alexander Atanasov (aatanasov) said : 		#1

you should enter your own password, not root's. updater uses sudo.
It took a while to get used to it, coming from slackware.

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Larry Jordan (larryjor) said : 		#2

     True. Just switched from FC2 myself, and after research found that Ubuntu disables root by default. They want you to use 'sudo' instead. There IS a way to change this behavior, but I just stuck with it and got used to 'sudo' with my user password. Works same from there.

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Lilwiz (lilwiz) said : 		#3

Thanks Alexander Atanasov, that solved my question.

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#4

I hope this helps for other issues. I think it's just for dipping into rather than grokking

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromLinux

Err, and this is for fun lol

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

Good luck and welcome to Ubuntu ;)
Regards from
Tom :)