Terminal does not accept administrator PW in response to "SU"
This bug report was converted into a question: question #27951: Terminal does not accept administrator PW in response to "SU" .
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-terminal
The installation of ubuntu 7.10 did not give me the option of creating a ROOT password. Most operations ask for the Administrator PW, the Terminal does not. I am trying to install the Java plugin for Firefox.
ubuntu 7.10
Terminal 2.18.2
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Mar 25 08:51:47 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/
Package: gnome-terminal 2.18.2-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitec
ProcCmdline: gnome-terminal
ProcCwd: /home/doug
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux pcs3 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 02:46:46 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Hi there
you should use sudo instead and provide your user password, you can assign a password for your root user too, but that's another thing. Anyway I'm redirecting to the support tracker this issue since is more a support request than a bug.
Thanks