Password not working with Sudo

Hi, I hope someone can help with this.

I'm trying to run a sudo command in Terminal and when it asks for my password I get "Sorry, try again".

My user account is set up as Admin and I've even tried enabling root user but that didn't make any difference.

The last time I tried sudo was in Snow Leopard and it worked fine. My current install was clean in Lion and then upgraded to 10.8 so there shouldn't be anything hanging around from the old 10.6 install.

Any suggestions as to how I can get my password to work would be appreciated.

Thanks

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1)

Posted on Sep 3, 2012 3:48 AM

35 replies

sinjon2112 Author

Level 1

45 points

Apr 7, 2013 2:21 PM in response to christomcfisto

Hi christomcfisto, thanks for bringing this thread back to life.

Just tried su root in terminal and after entering my password I get "sorry"

LA440

Level 1

0 points

Apr 8, 2013 7:02 AM in response to sinjon2112

I have the same issue. Is this a mountain lion bug then?

Apr 8, 2013 8:43 AM in response to christomcfisto

su root does not work if root isn't enabled.

To become root you must issue

sudo -i

kalmdown

Level 1

6 points

Apr 9, 2014 9:19 PM in response to sinjon2112

Was having the same problem. Found if I typed 1st character, hit Backspace and then typed password it removed the capitalization and worked.

Jun 12, 2015 7:45 PM in response to sinjon2112

Try doing "su root" instead of sudo.

Once you do that, you get the password prompt. Your root password should work now

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Password not working with Sudo