[PLUG] Lost root password

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Mon Nov 21 04:49:13 UTC 2011


On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:29:13 -0800
Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net> dijo:

>Sudo'ing to root, and resetting the password ought to make su work
>again. 
>
>I personally like: "sudo -s" to get a root shell, the you can "passwd
>root" or maybe even just "passwd" to reset the root password.

Doesn't work:

[jjj at Devil8 ~]$ sudo su
Password: 
[root at Devil8 jjj]# passwd root
Changing password for user root.
New password: 
Retype new password: 
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

New tab opened:

[jjj at Devil8 ~]$ su
Password: 
su: incorrect password
[jjj at Devil8 ~]$ 

Worse, before displaying "Password" in the new tab I now get a popup
that says:

	Privileges are required to enroll new fingerprints for other
	users
	An application is attempting to perform an action that requires
	privileges. Authentication as the super user is required to
	perform this action.

The computer is a Thinkpad that does have a fingerprint reader. But I
have always ignored the fingerprint reader. I wonder if the upgrade
from Fedora 14 to Fedora 16 helpfully decided to enable the fingerprint
reader.



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