Modification of root password reset every reboot

[CacheRAM]

This one has me confused .. I launched terminal under KDE, and did:
$sudo passwd root
password: <entered current PW>
Enter new UNIX password: <entered new root password>
Retype new UNIX password: <entered new root password again>
passwd: password updated successfully
$

That sticks as long as I don't log off. Every terminal I open accepts the new root PW.

However, in KDE, anything I do that needs root privileges still wants the old password.

So, to fix that, I do:
K-menu > Settings > System Administration > User Management.

• Click the Administrator Mode ... button
• Enter old root P/W
• Put check in Show system accounts
• Select root
• Click Modify...
• goto Password and Security tab
• Enter the new P/W
• Click OK
• Click OK again

This setting also stays until I logoff. Then next time I startx, it wants the old root P/W again.

Is there something else I should be doing to make the root password stay what I want it?

Thanks

[javierrivera]

Re: Modification of root password reset every reboot

Kubuntu, by default don't ask you for the root password to make system changes, but for your own user password.

So, you should probably change it, not the root one .

Javier.

[CacheRAM]

Re: Modification of root password reset every reboot

Meh.

Any way I can alter that behavior?

[javierrivera]

Re: Modification of root password reset every reboot

Sure, set the rootpw flag on the /etc/sudoers file.

But you are altering the basic ubuntu security model. There can be some unexpected results.

Anyway:

$ man sudoers

is your friend.

Javier.

[penguin.ch]

Re: Modification of root password reset every reboot

Any way I can alter that behavior?

No problem - if done properly: http://www.penguin.ch/dokuwiki/doku....o#root_revival