On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:58 PM, निशांत / Nishant <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Sriranga(77yrsold) > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am facing problem of authentication of password. extract of terminal is >> reproduced below: >> >> srira...@ubuntu:~$ cd tesseract-ocr-read-only-408/ >> srira...@ubuntu:~/tesseract- >> ocr-read-only-408$ su >> Password: >> su: Authentication failure >> srira...@ubuntu:~/tesseract-ocr-read-only-408$ > > Instead of su, use "sudo bash" to become root on a shell console. When > prompted for password, give your own password and you should be root. > > regards, > Nishant
If you're still facing issues with the password, you can boot into recovery mode and reset it (without knowing the older password). You can find instructions here: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword Regards Ritesh > > -- > How about some patent on "(a+b)2 = a2+2ab+b2". Choose free software! > http://www.nishants.net > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
