I am having a problem with sudo from an xterm window. No matter what I do, it gives me a bad password error when I try to execute anything as root. I have tried every combination of passwords on the machine, made sure the caps lock was off(tried it on too, just to see if it did anything), but nothing makes a difference. I can hit [ctrl][alt][F1], and login in as root with the password without a problem, so I know I have the right password.

I even tried reinstalling fresh from the CD, and still the same result. Is there something else I am missing? I checked the FAQ, and didn't see anything about this, and found nothing when I searched here.

On a related note, are the passwords in linux only 8 characters long? I had a 10 character password for root the first time, and was able to type in just the first 8 characters, and it accepted my password at the login. Its been years since I messed with any linux systems, but it seems as though the passwords could be longer than that.

Thanks,
Brad

sudo doesn't use the root password, it uses the current user's password. If that doesn't work, you will need to add that user into the /etc/sudoers also try man sudo should help you a bit more also

I merely exited, then logged in as root, then I was able to install /usr/share/doc/...... and it worked!

just for future reference knoppmyth is not built around sudo like some distros like ubuntu. In knoppmyth you just su then enter the root password to execute programs as root.

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