New password not working in software centre.
 

Hi, I forgot my password so went into root to change it.

From grub menu, Ubuntu : advanced options : ubuntu recovery : network : root

input passwd then typed in a new password and re-entered password. rebooted.

Tried to uninstall Firefox from software centre but the new password was not accepted for authentication.

Could anyone advise what the problem could be or suggest what I may have done wrong. The password appeared to be accepted ok in root. Thanks

arranskye,

This link should sort things for you:

http://www.mikaellinusson.com/blog/2...root-password/

Is this Ubuntu? I suspect that the software center is expecting your sudo (user) password, not the root password.

I get a similar thing with Mint. If I su to root, I can start Synaptic from the command line, but, if I start it from the GUI interface as user, it wants the sudo password.