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Assuming my login password is the one being referred, I cannot type that, or in fact, anything when password is requested. I read through the answer to an earlier question on this problem and tried what was suggested. I even typed my password on a separate document, copied and then pasted it into terminal; nothing.

I understand that a password may not display when typed, but one assumes that when you press 'enter' all will be well. All I get is - 'Sorry, try again'!!!!!

Do I need a special password for terminal? If so, where do I register it?

P.S. I am fully able to type in the command line. So data entry doesn't seem to be the problem, from a keyboard point of view.

Sorry guys, new to Ubuntu and not very clued up on programming. Willing to learn, though.

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  • do you get any error for sudo -v
    – Ron
    May 5, 2015 at 7:11
  • How do you paste the password in the terminal? Ctrl-Shift-V ?
    – A.B.
    May 5, 2015 at 7:29
  • What keyboard layout are you using? What language? Try echo "password" | sudo -S whoami and add the output to your question. Does that work? Does it print root? Make sure that password is your actual password.
    – terdon
    May 5, 2015 at 9:29

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sudo uses your user's password, it is the same you enter when logging in. You can try changing your password with passwd.

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    How can he log in and change the password if he has no password? And if he can log in, then he has a password.
    – A.B.
    May 5, 2015 at 7:26
  • He says in his question he has a password.
    – Pabi
    May 5, 2015 at 7:48

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