I am trying to do an update so I can install some software but when I try to type in my password it doesn't work

not even the admin one I set up during install

update: I found out that the pw was mythtv (I dont know why I have to setup a admin pw then) but now it is saying that it is not allowed to execute as root

ok I figured it out

what I had to do was logout and login as root for some reason they wouldn't let me sudo from mythtv accout

Current KnoppMyth installs have 3 useful accounts:

1) the mythtv account which does all the GUI stuff (and runs a limited set of commands as root, via sudo), and

2) the root (administrator) account, which has no restrictions (i.e. full power to break things), and

3) a user account in your name, which is the one you should add sudo access to.

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