From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 15 10:01:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A13F616A403 for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 10:01:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from exiaf_radar_guy38@yahoo.co.in) Received: from web8913.mail.in.yahoo.com (web8913.mail.in.yahoo.com [203.84.221.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9C93613C455 for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 10:01:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from exiaf_radar_guy38@yahoo.co.in) Received: (qmail 44609 invoked by uid 60001); 15 May 2007 10:01:56 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.co.in; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=gp/4Fmdis6s4Qhjk8mLItslByGZzgoPrx2R57g49dQGmzdcc5wQ0DwBq1V4X3KSZcwT7dISQ/6sMLOb3MDH9s38oO7iYHDujN72LNeJawWUmF2A73xcnU+QpAMu8jgtFhoX7DGa0frz+5biIsLuMEB6vnltB0F9dw5+lvjskT3Q=; X-YMail-OSG: c9bBz5sVM1kLS.DNBJZUWxP933mFL_XQ969kG9uXZ6rF6PPZZNqQzRcIbwIpxEKwMA-- Received: from [59.94.182.78] by web8913.mail.in.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 15 May 2007 11:01:55 BST Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:01:55 +0100 (BST) From: dharam paul To: freebsd MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <952375.43938.qm@web8913.mail.in.yahoo.com> Subject: Gnome does not accept root password X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 10:01:58 -0000 While logged in as a user (simple normal user) in FreeBSD 6.2, in Gnome GUI when I tried to do some administrative tasks, it asked me for the root password, I entered the root password, it gives me an error that the password is wrong! I know that the password is correct. Is it some bug in Gnome. Regards Dharam Paul Balley Office firewalls, cyber cafes, college labs, don't allow you to download CHAT? Click here: http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php