On Wed, January 7, 2009 00:05, Sreeja O V wrote: > I am new user .I installed newest vertion of openolaris(Jan 1 2009) with > my ubuntu 8.10. Then i tried to install jdk kit. while tried "sudo" to > move jdk into /opt like > $ sudo mv jdk1.6.0_10/ /opt > ............ > ........ > password > Sorry,try again. > password > Sorry,try again. > ......... > > But i am sure about my root password . > Why it happens ?
Because sudo doesn't want the root password; it wants your user password. Once you give the right password, you will probably next find out that you need to configure yourself in /etc/sudoers (as parthasarathi susarla pointed out). -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
