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synaptic package

cannot go root on terminal. Many extra users AVAHI

Asked by Mike McCord

Binary package hint: synaptic

SU - will not accept my password. (again) My password is not accepted. I cannot get rid of AVAHI where extra accounts are set up. The last install had 2 remote desktops. Please help. This is Ubuntu 8.10 X64.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
Package: synaptic 0.62.1ubuntu10
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: synaptic
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

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This question was originally filed as bug #336806.

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Mike McCord (rhodo32) said : 		#1
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) said : 		#2

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#When%20not%20to%20file%20a%20bug.

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Delan Azabani (azabani) said : 		#3

When you are trying to do something as root, you don't use su because su requests root's password. This usually doesn't exist (root is typically disabled for security) meaning you can't 'log in' as root in a terminal. Use sudo - as an administrator, you have the right to use your own password to do things as root and sudo will request your own password.

sudo [command]

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