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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">No characters will be shown (in case
somebody's looking over your shoulder), so you'll have to type it
in "blind", and twice (it will prompt you to enter it again for
confirmation)<br>
<br>
Steve<br>
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On 25/04/16 17:32, jackie menon wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CACUE1_9c0PPhxv5V9dp95PW-f3+hd8O-oqo1S55SWTYcscyjig@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Hi Steve
<div>Thanks for your advice. I can get as far as typing in the new
password but when I type no charachters are coming up on the
screen and I get the message "sorry, try again".</div>
<div>Jackie<br>
<br>
On Monday, 25 April 2016, Steve Parker <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:steve@steve-parker.org"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:steve@steve-parker.org">steve@steve-parker.org</a></a>>
wrote:<br>
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<p
style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;word-wrap:break-word">Hi
Jackie,</p>
<p
style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;word-wrap:break-word"> </p>
<p
style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;word-wrap:break-word">When
you first installed the PC, it should have asked you to
choose a username and password (along with a name for the
PC itself, and a few other questions). It is that password
which you need to enter.</p>
<p
style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;word-wrap:break-word"> </p>
<p
style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;word-wrap:break-word">If
you are not sure of the password, you reset it quite
easily:</p>
<p
style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;word-wrap:break-word"> </p>
<p
style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;word-wrap:break-word">1)
open a terminal (just type "Terminal" in the dash bar).</p>
<p
style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;word-wrap:break-word"> </p>
<p
style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;word-wrap:break-word">2)
Then run this command in the terminal window, followed by
pressing the RETURN key:<br>
sudo passwd $USER</p>
<p
style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;word-wrap:break-word">You
should be prompted to enter a new password for your user.
You can choose a new password, and this will now be the
password to use for the system updates, too.</p>
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style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;word-wrap:break-word"> </p>
<p
style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;word-wrap:break-word">Steve</p>
<p
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From: "jackie menon" <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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target="_blank">jacqueline.menon@gmail.com</a>><br>
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 2:32pm<br>
To: "<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk');"
target="_blank">GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>" <<a
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Subject: [GLLUG] Question about software updater problem<br>
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<p
style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;word-wrap:break-word">Hi
there</p>
<div>I am still a novice with regards to Ubuntu. </div>
<div>I am trying to do my software update. I get the
message that software is available to update and am
asked if I want to install it. I click install now and
get a box which says "to install or remove software, you
need to authenticate" and asks for a password.</div>
I am not sure which password is required. I have also read
on some forum pages that this is a bug and I should just
press the escape key. This does not work.
<div>I would welcome any suggestions of how to proceed.</div>
<div>Regards</div>
<div>Jackie</div>
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