Hey! Did you hear what [EMAIL PROTECTED] was saying on Apr 16 ?
> I recently tried to change my root password by logging in as root and
> using passwd. But that only updated the password for the purposes of
> logging on and su. sudo and linuxconf still needed the old one. What do
> i need to do to make these update?
I have no idea about linuxconf (I don't run RH) but sudo doesn't
use root's password it uses the password of the user running it.
The sudo command is to allow normal users restricted, time limited
root privileges. I can't think of a instance when root would want or need
to run sudo.
Regards, Steve Youngs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 34307457
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