On Friday 02 January 2015 03:43:34 Michele Calgaro wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 01/02/2015 03:52 AM, Dan Youngquist wrote: > > On 01/01/2015 05:56 AM, Robby Kitchen wrote: > >> I was just going through the Control Center exploring trying to get > >> familiar with the settings, until I came across one, (I don't remember > >> now which one), but it needed a password before I could open it to make > >> changes. I put in the same password I had just used, but got an error > >> message saying that wasn't the right password. > > > > Where TDE Control Center asks for a password, it needs the root password, > > not the user's password. At least, I've never seen it ask for the user's > > password. > > > > It sounds like you may now have your user password munged up. Can't help > > you with that, except to suggest you try resetting it from a root shell > > using passwd. > > I also suspect the same thing. If your user is a "normal user", changing > some system settings requires root privileges. Some of the options in > Control Center are like that, so when you are asked for a password it > should say something like "insert root password". You need to provide the > root's password, not your user's password. > > Please try again and if you still have errors, please post a screenshot of > what you are doing and what the error looks like. I had this problem on Linux Mint. TDE Control Center asks for the administrator password, which is of course the root password. Ubuntu type distros don't have a root password. Here is the solution I found: (It worked!) http://sharadchhetri.com/2014/06/26/set-root-password-ubuntu-debian-linux-mint/ It might help those who are steeped in Ubuntu, if the Control Center asked for a root password, and not for an administrator password. It would make it more obvious what was wanted and what was the problem. Lisi