Re: [ubuntu-in] ubuntu9.04 authentication failed -to go to root.

2010-06-30 Thread Sriranga(77yrsold)
Ninad, problem is solved thanks to all for valuable suggestions. -srirnaga(77yrsold) On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Sriranga(77yrsold) wrote: > Ninad, > thanks for the valuable guidance. Since I am newbie to linux i did not > experiment but followed as per your guidance. extract of terminal >

Re: [ubuntu-in] ubuntu9.04 authentication failed -to go to root.

2010-06-30 Thread Sriranga(77yrsold)
Ninad, thanks for the valuable guidance. Since I am newbie to linux i did not experiment but followed as per your guidance. extract of terminal reproduced below: srira...@ubuntu:~$ cd tesseract-ocr-read-only-408/ srira...@ubuntu:~/tesseract-ocr-read-only-408$ sudo password [sudo] password for srir

Re: [ubuntu-in] ubuntu9.04 authentication failed -to go to root.

2010-06-30 Thread Ritesh Sinha
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:58 PM, निशांत / Nishant wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Sriranga(77yrsold) > wrote: >> I am facing problem of authentication of password. extract of terminal is >> reproduced below: >> >> srira...@ubuntu:~$ cd tesseract-ocr-read-only-408/ >> srira...@ubuntu:~/t

Re: [ubuntu-in] ubuntu9.04 authentication failed -to go to root.

2010-06-30 Thread Ninad Pundalik
Hi, > > ocr-read-only-408$ su > > Password: > > su: Authentication failure @Sriranga: 'su' is the command that logs you into the root shell and hence, the password required would be that of the root user. If you have not set a password for the root, then it is a randomly generated password (AFAIK)

Re: [ubuntu-in] ubuntu9.04 authentication failed -to go to root.

2010-06-30 Thread निशांत / Nishant
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Sriranga(77yrsold) wrote: > I am facing problem of authentication of password. extract of terminal is > reproduced below: > > srira...@ubuntu:~$ cd tesseract-ocr-read-only-408/ > srira...@ubuntu:~/tesseract- > ocr-read-only-408$ su > Password: > su: Authentication

[ubuntu-in] ubuntu9.04 authentication failed -to go to root.

2010-06-30 Thread Sriranga(77yrsold)
I am facing problem of authentication of password. extract of terminal is reproduced below: srira...@ubuntu:~$ cd tesseract-ocr-read-only-408/ srira...@ubuntu:~/tesseract- ocr-read-only-408$ su Password: su: Authentication failure srira...@ubuntu:~/tesseract-ocr-read-only-408$ I used the* same pa