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Re: I find a bug


From: Georgi Guninski <guninski () guninski com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:11:28 +0200

on vanilla ubuntu 10.04 your command doesn't ask for the ROOT password, it
asks for the password of the luser running "sudo".

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 04:45:50AM -0600, Laurelai Storm wrote:
try sudo su - root

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Georgi Guninski <guninski () guninski com>wrote:

can you give a reproducible testcase to try (i am confused by "user:
root")?

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:33:14AM +0100, Christian Sciberras wrote:
FYI I got asked for the root password (user: root, pass: *whatever*).
I don't expect you to know my machine better than I do.

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Georgi Guninski <guninski () guninski com
wrote:

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 04:43:31PM +0100, Christian Sciberras wrote:
Oh, and for what it's worth, I get asked for the root password on my
machine
(vanilla ubuntu).

FYI vanilla ubuntu doesn't set a root password (try to log in as root).
i don't expect you to know advanced stuff like this.



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