terminal password: not excepting any characters..

swearls · 02-22-2018, 07:52 PM

swearls.

first time user of Linuxquestion.using Linux mint Sonya 18.2 up to date.while trying to install a brother printer.i,m stopped when by terminals password.I have tried every character on the keyboard. zip, nothing, blank,it will not take anything.i would be happy if i was able put a password in, at all and then i would know if, it was wrong or right.... thanks i do hope iv explained it well.thanks!!! to all for helping me and others

syg00 · 02-22-2018, 08:18 PM

Nothing shows for passwords - not even "*".
Just type your password in and hit the <Enter> key.

swearls · 02-23-2018, 09:01 PM

no either one made no different, but thanks, ill try any thing (almost) once or twice

ondoho · 02-24-2018, 06:47 AM

were you prompted to enter your password after sudo or su?
for the latter, you'd need your root password, not your user password. which, i think, is undefined on ubuntu-based distributions. you can circumvent that by either prepending every command with sudo, or using 'sudo su', or define a root password.

swearls · 02-27-2018, 09:10 PM

i used the command to reset password .i believe i found it in Linux forum.i got the idea from Ondoho comment (use root password, not your user password. which, i think, is undefined)i never set a password so or don't remember doing it when i installed .THANKS for the clues it helped