[ale] Some days are worse than others

[Marvin, International Martian of Mystery]

Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 July 2007 09:58, Robert Story wrote:
> | Really? On most distros, sudo wants the password for the user, not root.
>
> Yes, that's so.  But "su"  as in "switch user" will give root access if the
> root password is typed.  And I was trying to get to root.  Using the
> terminal I can gain root access to the system using the newly set root
> password.  
>
> In this case, applications run from the Desktop GUI that wanted a password
> would accept NEITHER my user password nor the newly set root password. Which
> left me stymied.  Simply put, something is FUBAR, at least past my abilities
> to fix it.
>   
Have you used "visudo" to add yourself to the "sudoers" file?