[CUBE] American Keyboard

Joost van de Griek joost at jvdg.net
Fri Mar 21 07:05:34 PST 2003


On 2003-03-21 14:24, Allan Hise wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, miln wrote:
>
>> I typed the following (at the place of brooks there is my name...):
>> [cube:~] brooks% su -
>>  Password:
>> 
>> Then I don't know what to do, I can't give my password and if I type enter,
>> it says su: sorry
>> What's wrong?
> 
> when you use 'su' you need the root password.
> when you use 'sudo' you use your (admin) password.

And the password will not be shown on the screen while you type.

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