problems with su

[maksimkogan]

encountering a bit of a weird problem. whenever i try to change settings through the gui i get to the part where the password dialog pops up, i enter the password and it tells me that the password is wrong. when i just su in the shell that very same password works, as it should, meaning that it's not that i forgot the password or anything. perhaps there is something i need to configure that i have not? can't so much as begin to understand the root of the problem.

thanks in advance,
max

[whoiam55]

Re: problems with su

First of all, You must not enable your root account password, Second you must stop using su, use sudo or sudo -s instead, When sudo or kdesud ask you root password enter your password. To lock you root password type sudo passwd -l root. check the link for more information.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RootSudo

[maksimkogan]

Re: problems with su

i've just always used su and didn't realize that with sudo you need to type the account password rather than the root password. well i guess that's it everything's running smoothly now. thanks for your help, hopefully i'll be posting a lot less problems now than 3 in 7 days.

thanks,
max