Password question.

[Bruce Marshall]

On Monday 24 November 2008, Steven Vollom wrote:
> Dear Bruce,
>
> I changed my login password to the nightmare.  Then I typed in a
> terminal xhost +, next I typed in su, then I typed in em, because that
> was my password for the terminal, It did not accept it.  I reentered
> xhost + and got the following:
>
> steven at Studio25:~$ xhost +
> access control disabled, clients can connect from any host
> steven at Studio25:~$
>
> I did not get a chance to type in the new Login password, which I
> suppose it wanted.
>
> Did I just make a terminal mistake?  in the worst sense.

Have you set a root passwd yet?