Password problem

Hey troops,

I have an odd situation here.
When I open a terminal and try to execute a command the password dialogue comes up.
Nothing new there, the problem is it will not take a password.
When I try and type the password nothing happens.
Any ideas?

Using LCNC 2.5.4

THX

Hi

When I open a terminal and try to execute a command the password dialogue comes up.
Nothing new there,

Unless you are using a system with a root terminal, like the lxde desktop, being asked for a password in a dialog will be new to most people.

It is nothing to do with Linuxcnc, so need to know exactly what distro you are running

regards

Arceye,

You just drove right past me!

Please help me to get the information you need.
I'm unaware of different distributions or how to identify them.

There is a chance I'm using nomenclature inappropriate and misrepresented my problem as well. (We'll see).

Thanks

Hi

If you downloaded the Live Cd image, burnt to CD and installed from that, you are using Ubuntu 10.04.

There is no dialog that pops up wanting a password when you open a terminal, unless you have a root terminal installed

From the desktop just press Ctrl Alt T, that should get you a normal user terminal, the only time you will be asked for a password is if you use sudo, and that will be inside the terminal, not a popup dialog.

regards

Hello,

Thanks for your help.

What you share and how you share it makes all the difference.
Let me define my problem more clearly. (Or at lest try too anyway).

Yes, I have downloaded the “Live CD Image” and burnt it to disk.
In fact I used the disk to put LCNC on my machine, you helped me configure the machine at lest a year ago now. So it is Ubuntu 10.4. (I failed to share that earlier, sorry).

Yes, I am using “sudo” to try to install a program not in the repository.
I opened a terminal and this is the command (I think you call it a command) I am typing,
sudo /bin/bash synergyUbuntu.sh
It asks for the password at this point and I am unable to type anything.

I hope this helps.

Linux by default will not show that you typed anything as a security measure. You are in fact typing but no asterisk or anything will appear in the terminal. Just type your password and hit "enter".

dracozny wrote:

Linux by default will not show that you typed anything as a security measure. You are in fact typing but no asterisk or anything will appear in the terminal. Just type your password and hit "enter".

I think that is probably it, albeit you did say

When I open a terminal and try to execute a command the password dialogue comes up.

What is it you are trying to install?

The commands look like you are trying to run a sh script using bash

regards

I'm trying to install Weber Systems “Synergy CAD/CAM” program.
Wewbersys.com

Maybe this will help, I tried one of the options on the web site (“The menu method”) and took a screen shot of it the results from the terminal to post here.

The script is trying to download a gpg key for a repo and pipe it direct to apt.

It should work, but something similar with my repo would not work properly, so I split it up.

Do the wget -q webersys.poweb.com -O /tmp/webersys-key.gpg

first

Then sudo apt-key add /tmp/webersys-key.gpg

Then you need to add the repo to your sources.list, but presumably that is next in the script

regards

I'm making some progress, as soon as I went to add the repo I hit another wall.
I add another screenshot to illustrate.

I am adding a screen shot of the dialogue from the Weber web site.
If I need to modify any of the script going forward I thought having all of it here now might save time.

THX