Yumex issue on new install

[Joe Zeff]

On 11/19/2012 11:26 AM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote:
>> I finally broke down and replaced F16 with F17 on my laptop with a clean
>> install, except for /home.  The good news is that the boot issue went away,
>> proving that it was a software issue not a kernel issue.  The bad news is
>> that after installing yumex I can't get it to run.  It asks me to
>> authenticate, but always fails, claiming the password's wrong.  I know that
>> I haven't forgotten the root password because it's the same one I used to
>> install yumex.
>
> Isn't it asking you for YOUR password and not root's?
>

If so, it's something new and unexpected.  It never did before, and 
doesn't on this box.