su and administrator password fails in gnome

[Rick Dooling <rpdooling@gmail.com>]

Here's a weird one.

On a new installation of Etch, I edited sudoers to give root
priveleges to myself (user rick).

Suddenly when gnome asks for my administrator password or when I try
to do "su" it fails to accept my root password.

If I log out to terminal, I can log in as root, but not as su.

Any idea what happened?

Sorry for the trouble.

ps

I double-check the sudoers file and it says:

Defaults      env_reset

root   ALL=(ALL)  ALL
rick   ALL=(ALL)  ALL

Rick