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The sudo Terminal command can be used by administrators to execute commands as a different user (for example, as root). When executing this command, you will be prompted to enter the password for the administrator account you are currently logged in as.
1. I'm trying to change the password that get's asked when doing sudo. I'm in Ubuntu. Doing 'sudo passwd' or 'sudo passwd root' does give me the two new password questions, and it successfully changes passwords. But then I can still use my old password when doing sudo again for something else.p vote 6 down vote. The password you use for sudo is the password of your own account, not the root account. sudo is used to grant you access to commands that need to be executed as root without giving you root access directly. To change your own password, use passwd without sudo.