Re: Authenticate not working?
On 11/10/18 3:28 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 11/10/18 2:30 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> Brand new fedora 29 install. Brand new user created.
> Logged in to gnome3 session as that user.
> Searched for "users" in the app finder.
> Clicked on the users app it found.
> It pops up a dialog asking me to authenticate.
> I type in root password, it says it is no good.
> I try it 3 or 4 more times, still no good.
Assuming the user you are logged in as is an administrator, that is the
password it is looking for. Not the root one.
To clarify, if the user you logged in as is an administrator (part of
the "wheel" group), then the authentication is asking for YOUR password,
not root's.
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