Pretty straight forward. I have an ubuntu 9.10 NBR fresh install, and su nor sudo will accept my password from the command line. I can use synaptic and the updater tool, as well as invoke things with gksudo, but not invoke with sudo or su in the terminal.

The password is standard 8 character, 2 upper case letters, 2 numbers, and the rest lower case letters. But it says the password is incorrect.

As stated, this is a fresh install, I haven't fiddled with any settings. Am I missing a step? Or is there something horribly wrong.

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Perhaps this link will be of help ...

Character set issue? Does your terminal agree with X about what character set you're using?

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i found this quick and easy way to reset ubuntu user password:

i was messing around with /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow and some how lost my ability to use sudo, and then realized my user password got changed or deleted some how.

glhf! -outeran

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