Terminal does not accept administrator PW in response to "SU"

[DougD]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

The installation of ubuntu 7.10 did not give me the option of creating a ROOT password. Most operations ask for the Administrator PW, the Terminal does not. I am trying to install the Java plugin for Firefox.
ubuntu 7.10
Terminal 2.18.2

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Mar 25 08:51:47 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
Package: gnome-terminal 2.18.2-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: gnome-terminal
ProcCwd: /home/doug
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux pcs3 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 02:46:46 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Basilio Kublik (sourcercito)]

Hi there
you should use sudo instead and provide your user password, you can assign a password for your root user too, but that's another thing. Anyway I'm redirecting to the support tracker this issue since is more a support request than a bug.

Thanks