New Password Not Working In Software Centre.

Hi, I forgot my password so went into root to change it.

From grub menu, Ubuntu : advanced options : ubuntu recovery : network : root

input passwd then typed in a new password and re-entered password. rebooted.

Tried to uninstall Firefox from software centre but the new password was not accepted for authentication.

Could anyone advise what the problem could be or suggest what I may have done wrong. The password appeared to be accepted ok in root. Thanks


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