tag 18206 notabug thanks On 08/05/2014 05:55 PM, d_hewlett wrote: > > One day i needed to change my password > It appeared to go fine > When i logged in all goes fine > > then some days later i wanted to install software and of course it asked for authentication > I entered my password but it politely tells me its incorrect > i tried my old password with no better success > > why cannot we have a separate root password...... > > Anyway how to get out of this situation pl? Thanks for your report. However, you have reached the coreutils mailing list, which has nothing to do with your system password maintenance. You will not find any good answers here. Try your distro support mechanisms, or the distributor of the software you are trying to authenticate. I'm closing this report as it is not a bug in coreutils. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org