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[Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner@xxxxxx>]

Am Sonntag 05 Dezember 2010, um 23:41:38 schrieb Steve:
> On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 22:08:48 -0000, Andrew Woodhead
> 
> <andrew.woodhead666@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Steve <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > wrote:
> >> Just got Natty Alpha 1 installed and when I try to start any program
> >> that requires my password the response is 'Incorrect password... try
> >> again.'
> >> 
> >>  Clearly the password is correct as I wouldn’t be able to log in and it
> >> 
> >> works in a terminal.
> > 
> > Try running:
> > 
> > passwd
> > 
> > and set it to something new to test
> 
> No change I’m afraid.
> Users and Groups, along with Disk Utility accept the password but,
> Synaptic and Update manager don’t.  So my original message about 'any
> program' was wrong.

Is your user in the group wheel and is wheel activated to use sudo (see 
/etc/sudoers with roots right) ?