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Dear all,
I'm trying to access-in to my sudo via TerminalX but it'll prompt with text as below:
"password"

This is the command i key in:
sudo gedit /etc/hosts

My question: this i have a password and how i can retreive it?
 
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this page contains all the info you need:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Root_access

short version:
either start a root shell via "sudo gainroot" or "root", then just type "gedit /etc/hosts", or edit the files in /etc/sudoers.d to activate sudo for the "user" account.
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