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Terminal not responding to my password
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<blockquote data-quote="vansmith" data-source="post: 1383191" data-attributes="member: 71075"><p>As you correctly note, password prompts will not print back the keys you're typing for security purposes. Despite this, every key pressed is registered.</p><p></p><p>The password you need to use is your user password. You mention that you're using a root and admin password - those won't work unless you are one of those users. If you are entering your password, it's possible that your sudoers file is improperly formatted. The problem here is that fix it, you have to have elevated privileges which you can get by using sudo. Can you tell us what the contents of /etc/sudoers is? You'll have to use root privileges to view it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vansmith, post: 1383191, member: 71075"] As you correctly note, password prompts will not print back the keys you're typing for security purposes. Despite this, every key pressed is registered. The password you need to use is your user password. You mention that you're using a root and admin password - those won't work unless you are one of those users. If you are entering your password, it's possible that your sudoers file is improperly formatted. The problem here is that fix it, you have to have elevated privileges which you can get by using sudo. Can you tell us what the contents of /etc/sudoers is? You'll have to use root privileges to view it. [/QUOTE]
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